WASHINGTON – The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) invites public comments on the modernization of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which is authorized through December 31, 2026.

WASHINGTON – The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will hold public hearings on April 28 and April 29, 2026, regarding the Section 301 investigations into 60 economies' acts, policies, and practices related to the failure to impose and effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor.

The hearings will take place in the main hearing room of the U.S. International Trade Commission, at 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC, starting at 10:00 am ET.

WASHINGTON – Today, Ambassador Jamieson Greer announced agreement on the United States-European Union Action Plan for Critical Minerals Supply Chain Resilience. The Action Plan will serve as the primary U.S.-EU mechanism to coordinate trade policies and measures on critical minerals supply chains with a view to concluding a binding plurilateral agreement on trade in critical minerals.

WASHINGTON – This week, Ambassador Greer testified before the House Ways and Means Committee to lay out how President Trump’s trade policy is delivering tangible results for American workers and their families, eliminating long-standing trade barriers abroad while reshoring jobs and production back home.

Thank you Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Neil. It is good to be here today.  It has been a busy year and so I’m looking forward to discussing how President Trump’s trade policy is bearing fruit for American workers.  

As you know, President Trump inherited the largest trade deficit in human history—$1.2 trillion annually.  Between 2020 and 2024, the last year of the Biden Administration, the U.S. trade deficit in goods increased by over 40 percent.  The trade deficit worsened every year by an average of nearly 8 percent during that period.  

MEXICO CITY — Ambassador Jamieson Greer met today with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to discuss U.S.-Mexico trade and economic relations ahead of the USMCA Joint Review on July 1. Ambassador Greer thanked President Sheinbaum for her gracious welcome to Mexico City, and for her strong leadership in expanding U.S-Mexico bilateral cooperation.  

Thank you Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Meng for having me today. I’m glad we are can gather for this hearing today and I am looking forward to our conversation.

WASHINGTON – The Office of the United States Trade Representative has invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to review whether workers at the Latex Occidental, S.A. de C.V. (Latex Occidental) facility located in the city of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco, Mexico, are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The United States has suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from the Latex Occidental facility, which manufactures latex balloons.