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Every week, the USTR website will explore a new trade topic, with background information and current trade data. On July 21 and 22, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will be in Singapore at the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial meeting - so this week's trade topic is U.S. trade relations with APEC member economies.

Weekly Trade Focus: APEC

 

January 19, 2026

DETROIT – Last week, Ambassador Jamieson Greer joined Secretary Sean Duffy and Administrator Lee Zeldin on the Freedom Means Affordable Cars Tour, visiting a Ford and Stellantis plant in Ohio before attending the Detroit Auto Show. During the auto swing, Ambassador Greer met with auto workers, plant leaders, and industry executives to highlight how the Administration’s policies are revitalizing America’s auto industry, creating more jobs, raising blue-collar wages, and putting money back in Americans’ pockets.

January 15, 2026

January 14, 2026

January 14, 2026

WASHINGTON — On Friday, January 16 and Saturday, January 17, Ambassador Jamieson Greer will join U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for the Freedom Means Affordable Cars Tour. This two-day swing will highlight the work the Trump Administration is doing to lower car prices for American families, unleash American auto manufacturing, and increase consumer choice.

January 13, 2026

WASHINGTON – Last week, Ambassador Jamieson Greer joined Inside Geopolitics with The Economist’s geopolitics editor David Rennie to discuss the Administration’s trade and tariff policies and its role in strengthening America’s industrial base. In the wide-ranging conversation, Ambassador Greer outlined the success of putting America’s interests first when negotiating historic deals to rebalance the global trade order and accelerate the resurgence of American manufacturing. 

December 22, 2025

December 17, 2025

December 12, 2025

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 Mondelez Mexico, S.A. de R.L. de C.V. (Mondelez), located in the city and state of Puebla, 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 Mondelez facility, which manufactures confectionary goods, beverages, and other food products.  

December 12, 2025

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 a floating hotel facility operated by Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement Mexico LTD., S. de R.L. de C.V. (BSM) and P.M.I. Norteamérica S.A. de C.V. (PMI NASA), both located in Campeche, Mexico, are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.