In recent days and weeks, President Trump's trade negotiating agenda has set its sights on preventing transshipment of Chinese goods through third countries, in particular countries in Southeast Asia.

As the U.S. Senate and House work to agree on wide-ranging federal budget legislation, it looks increasingly likely that the final version will repeal the $800 de minimis duty exemption that was enacted in 2015, going a step further than the Trump administration's previous executive action to

A legal challenge to the Trump administration's ending of the de minimis exemption for most imports from China and Hong Kong is playing out in the U.S. Court of International Trade, with both parties having now filed legal briefs.

At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, a Republican Senator and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed the general outlook for China-U.S. trade relations and negotiations, as well as the specific issue of fentanyl and how the Chinese government should deal with it.

At a Congressional hearing today, a Trump administration official in charge of export controls was pressed for details on what was agreed between China and the U.S. in London earlier this week, but did not reveal any new information.

The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today to consider the nomination of Joseph Barloon to be the Deputy United States Trade Representative in Geneva and the U.S. Ambassador to the WTO, with questions about the Trump administration's approach to China in the WTO as one issue

One day after the U.S. Court of International Trade found all of the Trump administration's tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to be illegal, a second court issued a ruling that had the same effect but went even further in its reasoning, finding that