Also: US Court of International Trade (CIT) rules against tariffs on downstream steel and aluminum products, a rare court win against the Trump administration’s Section 232 tariffs The April 5-11, 2021 roundup of major trade developments, with L.C. The Biden administration has launched an effort to get the international tax talks hosted by the OECD […]
Will China’s “wolf warrior” diplomacy over its Uyghur policy backfire?
The March 22-28, 2021 roundup of major trade developments, with L.C. China’s confrontation with the US and its allies intensified this week, moving in a direction that may be difficult to steer away from. This week’s events followed and built upon last week’s tense US-China foreign ministers meeting in Alaska. The issue now in the […]
Trade opportunities thwarted by bipartisan protectionism
• Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern railroads agree to merge, forming “first USMCA railroad network”; • HUGE proposal for Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador would provide home country jobs, relieve US border crisis; • US farmers taking big export hit from US dropping out of Trans-Pacific Partnership; • US Trade Representative Katherine Tai is […]
Australia’s Cormann wins OECD race; Greens unhappy
– Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison hosts a virtual Quad leaders meeting on March 12th; – Secretary of State Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin will cross Pacific to meet with their Japanese and South Korean counterparts prior to a high-level US-China meeting in Anchorage, Alaska;– Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will be the first foreign […]
US, UK, and EU suspend Airbus-Boeing tariff wars
The US Trade Representative office releases its Annual Report and Agenda; WTO gets off to unpromising start despite efforts of its new Director-General, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; US Chamber of Commerce criticizes her vaccine proposal; Russia intelligence spreads disinformation on Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. US may raise Chinese censorship as an unfair trade issue The March 1-7, […]
