Growing Demand for Allowing Tariff Exclusions from Section 301 List 3
October 26, 2018
A Congressional sign on letter is circulating calling on the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) to create an exclusion process for products affected by List 3 of the Section 301 China import tariffs. The letter is part of an expanding campaign that includes AAEI and the Americans for Free Trade coalition. The letter …
New Deal, New Name: USMCA
October 1, 2018
AAEI members are working together for a deeper look into the details of the USMCA, the new name for the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Canada agreed to join the U.S. and Mexico in time for the text of the trilateral agreement to be signed and submitted to Congress. Concessions on key issues …
All the Trump Trade Actions: Tracked
September 21, 2018
AAEI is tracking all the trade actions that the Trump Administration has taken since 2017, from renegotiating NAFTA to tariffs on aluminum and steel to Section 301 tariffs on imports from China. More than 35 such trade actions to date have carried the United States to the brink of a trade war with China and …
E-Commerce Gains Global Trade Attention
September 11, 2018
AAEI and its partners participating in the World Customs Organization’s (WCO’s) E-Commerce Work Group (WGEC) are working on solutions to the many trade-related pain points involving e-commerce. AAEI has been a leading voice on this work group for more than two years. In August 2018, the WCO published guiding principles for crossborder e-commerce. The goal …
Evidence Piling Up Against Tariffs
September 12, 2018
AAEI is responding to the Trump Administration’s numerous trade actions in a two-fold way, by joining multi-industry letters called for an end to the tariffs and by filing specific and technical comments under its own letterhead. A recent example is a set of comments AAEI sent to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) …