Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
U.S., EU and Japan Unite Against Excess Capacity and Other Distortive Trade Practices
The U.S., EU and Japan issued a joint statement at the 11 th Ministerial of the World Trade Organization in Buenos Aires, pledging trilateral cooperation to combat a number of unfair market distorting and protectionist…
New Sanctions Placed on Trade with Cuba
On Thursday November 9th, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) published new regulations in the Federal Register executing June’s National Security Presidential Memorandum (“NSPM”) regarding U.S. sanctions…
Congress Presses-On for Temporary Tariff Relief on Non-U.S. Made Goods by Year's End
The House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on October 25th to discuss the new Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Process – overseen by the U.S. International Trade Commission with input from other federal…
Commerce Continues China’s Status as a Non-Market Economy
On October 26, 2017, the Department of Commerce announced the results of an investigation concluding that China is a non-market economy (“NME”) country for purposes of Commerce’s antidumping analysis. Commerce’s…
New Obstacles Emerge in NAFTA Negotiations
As the fourth round of NAFTA negotiations were completed in Washington on Tuesday, October 17, 2017, significant new obstacles to the trade talks are emerging. As a result, the fifth round of talks has been postponed…