The White House announced this week it has selected Joseph Barloon to be its ambassador to the World Trade Organization, a role of a deputy U.S. trade representative. Barloon served as general counsel to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative 2019-2020, during the first Trump administration. He also was nominated to be a judge at the Court of International Trade by President Donald Trump in that first term but wasn't confirmed (see 2102050032).
India and the U.S. will negotiate a bilateral trade agreement that will cover multiple sectors in tranches, with the first aiming for completion in the fall of 2025, President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in their joint statement, released after their meeting Feb. 13.
In a Feb. 14 email alert to members, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America warned that CBP has accepted some entries made by members even though those entries don't have proper duty calculations or new import duties on China that were mandated under President Donald Trump's executive order last week.
The EU chairman of the Committee for International Trade and a former U.S. trade representative predicted that the trade dispute between the U.S. and the EU is unlikely to subside soon due to "fundamental disagreements" over economic policy.
The fact that the White House reciprocal tariff memo covers far more than tariffs gives the administration a great deal of leeway to impose tariffs on even trading partners like Canada, Mexico and South Korea that have virtually no tariffs on U.S. exports.
The White House published the annex including the list of aluminum derivatives that will face additional 25% tariffs, unless the aluminum content in them was smelted and cast in the U.S.
The White House published its annex of steel derivative items that will be subject to Section 232 tariffs once CBP is ready to collect tariff revenue on those items.
The White House published the annex listing aluminum derivatives that will face additional Section 232 tariffs of 25%, as well as the annex with the steel derivatives that will face 25% tariffs.
The Coalition for a Prosperous America celebrated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation as secretary of health and human services, saying in a Feb. 13 press release that it "looks forward to working with him and his team to reshore America’s generic drug and medical device manufacturing industries."
More than a fifth of House Democrats, led by Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., asked President Donald Trump to reconsider broad tariffs on Canada and Mexico because of the inflationary impact they would have on housing construction.