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Mexico and Canada must be informed of any deal struck in the U.S.

A World Trade Organization compliance panel last week found the U.S. had appropriately labeled an Indian minerals corporation as a public body despite India’s claim that the Commerce Department again misapplied the controversial standard when it issued new final determinations following a 2014 Appellate Body report.

The U.S. is expected to send deputy-level officials following last week's meeting between U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal.

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.