USTR

The agency will review Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Georgia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, South Africa, and Uzbekistan and Laos.

Key House Democrats negotiating outstanding U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement concerns with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative are waiting for administration officials to put their agreements in writing before moving forward, they said on Thursday.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to implement the TRQ at a March meeting with President Trump.

U.S. business groups say the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development should limit and more clearly define the scope of its efforts to develop a new international tax system that supersedes countries’ digital services taxes while demanding that the new system include a binding dispute-resolution mechanism and carveouts for certain sectors.

Products include flooring materials, pet leashes, silk fabrics, sinks, bicycle speedometers, folding chairs, drive shafts and more.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is pushing auto companies to commit that all of their output -- even autos manufactured and sold within the U.S. -- will meet U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement regional value requirements, tying the demand to requests for longer transition periods for complying with USMCA auto rules of origin, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.

“Both countries agreed to strive to make additional progress in advance of the next meeting, to be held in Washington, DC, in January 2020.”

As the U.S. and India work to finalize a limited trade pact, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is tying the U.S. restoration of Generalized System of Preferences benefits to reciprocal Indian market-access concessions, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.