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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is aiming to release the results of Section 301 investigations into digital services taxes being considered by 10 countries in early January, Inside U.S. Trade has learned.
Charlene Barshefsky: Biden’s pick “needs to know what she thinks, because she’ll do more negotiating within the administration than she ever will with a foreign party.”
“We have somebody who is an experienced trade lawyer who understands how the Hill works, which is, I think, enabling the new administration to hit the ground running.”
“Tough compromises … have to be made. And those are things that tend to come towards the end of a negotiation.”
Brazil’s decision to impose a 20 percent tariff on all U.S. ethanol imports this week, after market-access talks ended without a deal, has drawn the ire of industry groups now calling on the incoming Biden administration to respond in kind.
Biden’s pick for USTR discussed “worker” and “environmental protections” with Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) on Wednesday.
The U.S. and India are not “far away” from concluding a limited market-access deal that likely won’t be forged before the end of the Trump administration, outgoing U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Wednesday, advocating for a comprehensive trade agreement between the two.
The World Trade Organization is not suffering from a lack of trust but a “lack of like-mindedness” on key issues, U.S. Ambassador Dennis Shea said on Monday, delivering a parting message to colleagues in Geneva urging members build a “shared purpose” centered on shared values.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Tuesday said renewing the Generalized System of Preferences could be “very difficult” before it expires at the end of the year.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer appeared on Monday to dash the dreams of a last-minute Boeing-Airbus resolution while he’s still in office, or a nearly complete U.S.-United Kingdom deal to hand off to the Biden administration.
Exclusion extensions would “help with pandemic response” and “save jobs, businesses, and livelihoods,” they wrote.
Only written comments will be solicited for the report, due by April 30.
President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, said on Friday that she planned to “harness” U.S. trade relationships to help the administration revitalize the economy.
The Biden administration could achieve significant trade, energy and supply chain-related goals by better securing domestic access to rare earth minerals, private-sector representatives and an Energy Department official said this week.
“America’s labor movement was proud to partner with her to craft the North American Free Trade Agreement’s long-overdue replacement … with enforceable labor rights at its core.”
U.S.-Ecuador trade negotiations during the Biden administration might prove even more constructive than they were under President Trump, the country’s ambassador to the U.S., Ivonne Baki, told Inside U.S. Trade this week.
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) this week continued to press the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to take enforcement actions he said would "support Mexico’s labor reform" and address "persistent" violations, but sources say the coronavirus pandemic has made it challenging to submit and process challenges.
President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, will help the U.S. “dig out of the COVID-induced economic crisis,” he said on Thursday in formally announcing his intent to nominate her.
“We can’t have trade agreements and obligations being nullified by these seven people and a staff that really controls them.”
Korean President Moon Jae-In said on Tuesday that the country would consider joining CPTPP.