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Outgoing chair of the World Trade Organization’s Council for Trade in Services Ambassador Syahril Syazli Ghazali of Malaysia is urging WTO members to intensify engagement on outstanding issues. Such issues include the mandated services waiver for least-developed countries while exploring flexibilities to achieve potential deliverables for next year’s 14th Ministerial Conference in Younde, Cameroon, said people familiar with the developments.
The United States has advised the World Trade Organization that it is ready to enter into consultations with China and Canada over their challenges to tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration. Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is expected to visit Brussels to hold consultations on a range of issues, in the face of growing uncertainty arising from unilateral tariffs imposed by the Trump Administration. And Pakistan’s trade envoy to the World Trade Organization, Ambassador Ali Sarfraz Hussain, is being nominated as the chair of the Doha agriculture negotiating body, commonly referred to as the Committee on Agriculture in Special Session.
President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing a sweeping federal effort to expand domestic production of critical minerals, citing national security and economic independence as primary justifications. The measure invokes the Defense Production Act and targets key resources such as uranium, copper, potash, gold, and aluminum, with provisions that may extend to coal.
President Donald Trump has announced that broad reciprocal tariffs and sector-specific tariffs scheduled to take effect on April 2, will have "flexibility," as the drumbeat for exceptions and special treatment builds. “I don’t change. But the word flexibility is an important word,” he said. “Sometimes it’s flexibility. So there’ll be flexibility, but basically it’s reciprocal.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU (AmCham EU) have released The Transatlantic Economy 2025 , the 22nd edition of their annual report detailing the strength …
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) Board of Directors has unanimously approved a second amendment to a direct loan of up to $4.7 billion to support the export of U.S. equipment and services for an integrated liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. Originally authorized in 2019, the transaction had been delayed for four years and now moves forward with no material changes.
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