Major U.S. allies and trading partners have agreed to work together to confront government-backed industrial overproduction, expanding international support for the Trump administration’s campaign against trade practices that threaten domestic manufacturing and jobs. Fourteen economies joined the United States in
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer reported progress in talks with Chinese officials ahead of this week’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, while leaving unresolved the terms of an extension to
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Saturday that his country was “at war” with the United States after trade talks collapsed.
“It’s official: Twenty-five Democrat-run states, spanning from Michigan to California, have made their priorities clear: foreign sweatshops come before protecting hardworking Americans,” Greer said in a statement obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer responded to a report that the Trump tariffs cost manufacturing jobs by saying that “we lost 220,000 manufacturing jobs in the last two years with President Biden. Last
The tariffs that President Donald Trump imposed on 60 countries Thursday night utilize one of the mechanisms that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh laid out in the dissent of February’s Supreme Court ruling striking down Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs.
USTR Jamieson Greer announced “tariffs on 60 economies for their failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition” on forced labor.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday instructed the United States Trade Representative to impose additional 25-percent tariffs on most Brazilian imports entering the U.S. in response to unfair trading practices committed by Brazil in detriment of America.
The U.S. has opened a trade investigation into Germany’s plans to cut spending on prescription drugs, a move that could lead to new tariffs on Europe’s largest economy. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced the Section 301 probe Thursday, saying
United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Friday announced an agreement with the European Union to coordinate trade policies to ensure more resiliency in securing critical minerals.
President Donald Trump’s tariffs have reduced the United States’ trade deficit with China, ensuring that, for the first time since 2000, China is no longer the top U.S. trading partner with the largest trade deficit.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday urged the Treasury Department and the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to combat illegal Chinese e-cigarettes.
On Friday’s broadcast of “Bloomberg Surveillance,” U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer stated that there isn’t a specific direction to ensure tariffs going forward don’t impact affordability and “Whenever we’re imposing tariffs or doing deals, the purpose of the trade program
In the wake of Washington DC and Seoul signing a joint factsheet meant to reset trade tensions and stop discriminatory treatment of U.S. tech companies in South Korea, a pair of powerful Korean officials are already signaling they may torpedo the entire agreement — all to advance burdensome, one-sided tech regulations that overwhelmingly target American firms while giving Korean and Chinese tech giants a free pass.
Chinese state media ran a few victory laps on Sunday and Monday over news that U.S. and Chinese negotiators reached a provisional trade agreement after two days of talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Trump’s critics insisted tariffs would be the spark that lit a global trade war. But the trade war never arrived.
For Beijing, the decisive moment came when Trump’s threat proved real. “If there hadn’t been a deal,” Bessent said, “then TikTok would’ve gone dark in 48 hours.”
LONDON — The United States and China have agreed to a new trade framework aimed at restoring a stalled truce and stabilizing key economic ties. The agreement, reached during two days of talks at Lancaster House in London, includes provisions on critical mineral exports, tariff levels, and Chinese student access to U.S. universities.
The U.S. will reduce its reciprocal tariff on Chinese imports to 10 percent, down from the 125 percent level imposed during the height of the trade standoff earlier this year.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday said the Trump administration has made “substantial progress” in the trade negotiations between the U.S. and China.
From obscure licensing delays in Vietnam to sky-high dairy tariffs in Canada, the list highlights what officials describe as a global trading system in need of rebalancing.
