The Biden administration has announced significant tariff increases on Chinese products in several key sectors, including semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries, and medical products. These hikes are aimed at pressuring China to eliminate unfair trade practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property rights, and innovation, according to a White House statement....
Senators Urge USTR to Negotiate India’s Tariff Rates on Pecans
The U.S. pecan industry faces import duty of 100% when selling. to India. A bipartisan group of eight senators wrote a letter to US Trade Representative Katherine Tai requesting her help in duty relief The letter to Tai was led by Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (who is in a...
India Joins Three of Four IPEF ‘Pillars’
India's minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal, attended the first in-person ministerial meeting of the two-day Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which concluded in Los Angeles on September 10. The framework is structured around four pillars relating to trade, supply chains, clean economy, and fair economy. India has chosen to...
Los Angeles Hosts Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Ministerial Meeting Sep 8
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and United States Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that they will co-host an Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) Ministerial Meeting in Los Angeles on September 8-9, 2022. India will be represented by Commerce and Industry Minister, Piyush Goyal. The first in-person Ministerial...
U.S. to Ship Pork and Pork Products to India
United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the government of India has agreed to allow imports of U.S. pork and pork products into India, removing a longstanding barrier to U.S. agricultural trade. This news follows the successful revitalization of the U.S.-India Trade Policy...