President Trump, on his 100th day in office Saturday, signed an executive order establishing “the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy” — an entity to be run by Peter Navarro, who was originally named to head the White House National Trade Council. [Jenny Leonard] April 29th, 2017 [Inside U.S. Trade] The executive order says the White House…
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The United States will scrap agreements suspending antidumping and countervailing duties on Mexican sugar and re-impose those trade remedies on June 5 unless the two governments agree on a renegotiated version of the deal, the Commerce Department announced on May 1. [Jack Caporal] May 1st, 2017 [Inside U.S. Trade] “While I regret that such measures…
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday today outlined several issues that should be addressed in a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement — including services, rules of origin, digital trade and dispute settlement — while downplaying a West Wing debate over whether to withdraw from the agreement. [Brett Fortnam] May 1st, 2017 [Inside…
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross discusses U.S. trade with China and the renegotiation of Nafta. He speaks with Bloomberg’s Jason Kelly at the Milken Institute Global Conference. (Source: Bloomberg)
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President Donald Trump has called the North American Free Trade Agreement “the worst trade deal” ever signed by the United States. After threatening to withdraw from the agreement this week, he has announced that he will attempt to renegotiate it instead. The pact can be improved in ways that will help working people throughout the hemisphere,…
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What does “Hamilton” have to do with trade policy? More than you might think in the case of acting U.S. Trade Representative Stephen Vaughn, who counts himself among the hit Broadway musical’s legions of fans. [DOUG PALMER] April, 27th 2017 [Politico] Vaughn, a history buff as well as a trade lawyer, says he has…
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Washington ~ The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) urged the International Trade Administration (ITA) to find that China is not a market economy for purposes of applying US trade laws in countervailing duty and antidumping investigations. The ITA initiated the inquiry as part of an investigation relating to aluminum foil imports from China. The…
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by Michael Stumo, CEO of CPA The media was aghast last week that some Trump administration personnel had drafted a proposal to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as well as a proposal to renegotiate it. Later reports said the White House was not going to advance the proposal to end NAFTA,…
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Editor’s note: CEO of CPA, Michael Stumo, was interviewed by Inside US Trade to discuss Trump’s first 100 days. Michael Stumo, the CEO of the Coalition for Prosperous America — which includes members from various industry and labor groups — said he is generally pleased with the direction of Trump’s trade policy so far,…
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross — after announcing preliminary countervailing duty rates for softwood lumber from Canada this week — on Tuesday said “one of the problems” with NAFTA is that lumber and an unrelated dairy dispute with Canada are two key areas not covered by the trilateral agreement, which he said is stalled in Congress. [Jenny Leonard]…
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