DELIVERING ON RECIPROCAL TRADE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a trade agreement that will provide Americans with unprecedented levels of market access in Cambodia. The United States and Cambodia reached an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade, a legally binding agreement, that will provide American exporters with access to Cambodia’s market while bolstering U.S. national and economic security.
Key terms of the U.S.-Cambodia Agreement on Reciprocal Trade include:
- Tariffs:
- Cambodia has eliminated tariffs on 100 percent of U.S. products exported to Cambodia, creating commercially meaningful market access opportunities for the full range of U.S. exports, supporting high-quality American jobs.
- The United States will maintain a 19 percent reciprocal tariff rate for imports of Cambodia except for identified products from the list set out in Annex III to Executive Order 14346 of September 5, 2025, Potential Tariff Adjustments for Aligned Partners, which will receive a zero percent reciprocal tariff rate.
- Breaking Down Non-Tariff Barriers for U.S. Industrial Exports: Cambodia has committed to address a range of non-tariff barriers, including by: (1) streamlining and reducing import licensing and regulatory requirements; (2) accepting U.S. manufactured vehicles built to U.S. motor vehicle safety and emissions standards; and (3) accepting U.S. Food and Drug Administration certificates and prior marketing authorizations for medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
- Breaking Down Non-Tariff Barriers for U.S. Agriculture Exports: Cambodia has committed to address and prevent barriers to U.S. agricultural exports in the Cambodian market, including by recognizing U.S. regulatory oversight and accepting certificates issued by U.S. regulatory authorities, as well as recognizing U.S. sanitary and phytosanitary measures and other measures for food and agricultural products.
- Removing Barriers for Digital Trade, Services, and Investment: Cambodia has made comprehensive commitments on digital trade, services, and investment, including commitments to support a permanent moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions at the World Trade Organization, ensure the transfer of data across trusted borders for the conduct of business, and refrain from imposing digital services taxes or other discriminatory measures.
- Geographical Indications (GIs) and Market Access: Cambodia has committed to groundbreaking provisions that will preserve current and future U.S. market access for U.S. cheese and meat producers who rely on the use of common names. This includes ensuring that market access will not be restricted due to the mere use of certain cheese and meat terms. Cambodia has also committed to robust standards for transparency and fairness regarding the protection of GIs and to ensure that U.S. products can continue using terms that have been unfairly protected as GIs.
- Protecting and Enforcing Intellectual Property: Cambodia has made commitments that will benefit American innovators and creators by enhancing intellectual property protection and prioritizing enforcement against intellectual property theft. This includes joining and fully implementing key international intellectual property treaties and combatting notorious markets for counterfeiting and piracy.
- Strengthening Economic Security Alignment: The United States and Cambodia are committed to strengthening cooperation to increase supply chain resilience. This includes taking complementary actions to address unfair trade policies of third parties, cooperating on export controls, and addressing duty evasion.
- Strengthening Labor Protections: Cambodia has committed to protecting internationally recognized labor rights, including by prohibiting the importation of goods made by forced labor, amending its labor laws to fully protect workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, and strengthening the enforcement of its labor laws.
- Strengthening Environmental Enforcement: Cambodia has committed to adopt and maintain high levels of environmental protection and to effectively enforce its environmental laws.
- Confronting State-Owned Enterprises and Subsidies: Cambodia has committed to address distortionary behaviors of its state-owned enterprises when engaging in commercial activities and address distortions caused by domestic manufacturing subsidies.
- Notching Commercial Deals: The United States and Cambodia take note of a commercial deal in the aerospace sector, which will further increase U.S. exports to Cambodia.
THE PROSPEROUS PATH FORWARD: In the coming weeks, the United States and Cambodia will undertake applicable domestic procedures in advance of the Agreement entering into force, in order to lock in benefits for American businesses and workers.
- The United States currently runs its eighteenth largest goods deficit with Cambodia. The U.S. total goods trade deficit with Cambodia was $12.3 billion in 2024.
- President Trump has delivered a forward-looking and tough trade deal that will benefit American workers, exporters, farmers, small businesses, and digital innovators—this deal is what winning looks and will feel like for all Americans.
LIBERATING AMERICA FROM UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES: Since Day One, President Trump challenged the assumption that American workers and businesses must tolerate unfair trade practices that have disadvantaged them for decades and contributed to our historic trade deficit.
- On April 2, President Trump declared a national emergency in response to the large and persistent U.S. goods trade deficit caused by a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, unfair tariff and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption.
- President Trump continues to advance the interests of the American people and our agricultural sector by removing tariff and non-tariff barriers and expanding market access for American exporters.
- Today’s announcement shows that America can defend its domestic production while obtaining expansive market access with our trading partners.
