http://www.ustr.gov/node/64/205,11,12,320/10en-us12/06/2012http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/december/us-requests-wto-panel-argentina-ir2012-12-06T05:00:00Washington, D.C. - United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk today issued a statement of congratulations and welcome to Mexico’s new Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal on the occasion of the inauguration of new Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/december/amb-kirk-statement-guajardo-villarreal2012-12-03T05:00:0007/18/2012Washington, D.C. – Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative issued the following statement regarding a decision in the third softwood lumber arbitration dispute brought by the United States against Canada:http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/july/ustr-statement-response-softwood-lumber-arbitration2012-07-18T04:00:0006/19/2012Washington, D.C. – President Obama announced today that the United States and the eight other countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement have extended an invitation to Canada to join the TPP negotiations, pending successful conclusion of domestic procedures. In addition to the United States, the current TPP countries are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/june/ustr-kirk-welcomes-canada-as-new-tpp-partner2012-06-19T04:00:0006/18/2012Washington, DC – President Obama announced this morning that the United States and the eight other countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement have extended an invitation to Mexico to join the TPP negotiations, pending successful conclusion of their domestic procedures. In addition to the United States, the current TPP countries are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/june/ustr-mexico-new-tpp-partner2012-06-18T04:00:0006/05/2012Today in Kazan, Russia, trade ministers from the nine Trans-Pacific Partnership countries - Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam - gathered on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum's meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT). All of the TPP partners are also APEC economies.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/june/meeting-tpp-kazan-russia2012-06-05T04:00:0005/16/2012http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/may/trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-talks-advance-texas2012-05-16T04:00:00Today the United States is filing an appeal in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute with Mexico challenging the United States’ dolphin-safe labeling measures for tuna products sold in America. On September 15, 2011, a WTO Panel report in this dispute was released, which found that the objectives of the U.S. measures are legitimate; that the measures do not treat Mexico’s tuna products any less favorably than tuna products from the United States or other WTO Members; and that any adverse effects felt by Mexican tuna producers from the U.S.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/january/us-appeal-wto-dolphin-safe-tuna-labeling-dispute-m2012-01-20T05:00:00Honolulu, HI – Today, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk commented on the statements issued by the governments of Mexico and Canada regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP):http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2011/november/statement-us-trade-representative-ron-kirk-announ2011-11-13T05:00:00Washington, D.C. – In March 2009, Mexico applied a first round of retaliatory tariffs on 89 products exported from the United States as a result of a cross-border trucking dispute between the two countries. Following a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cross-Border Motor Trucking signed by U.S.http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2011/july/statement-ambassador-ron-kirk-reduction-tariffs-us-ex2011-07-08T04:00:00