International Trade

Assistant Chief Counsel for International Trade Rosalyn Steward attended the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) in Brisbane, Australia. IPEF is a modern regional arrangement to build cooperation and economic integration…

By Rosalyn Steward, Assistant Chief Counsel On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, in Augsburg, Germany, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, and the Small Business Administration convened the…

***Digital Tools Hybrid Outreach Meeting*** TUESDAY, September 13, 2022, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PDT The Office of Advocacy, an independent office within the U.S. Small Business Administration, is holding an outreach meeting in…

The Office of Advocacy, an independent office within the U.S. Small Business Administration, is holding an outreach meeting in Durham, NH on June 17th to hear from small businesses about their views on access to and use of digital tools.…

Small business stakeholders are invited to attend, via online webinar, the first United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Dialogue. The USMCA SME Dialogue brings together small and medium-sized…

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, T-MEC in Mexico or CUSMA in Canada) recognizes the fundamental role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the North American economies and seeks to promote participation of SMEs in digital…

When using traditional measurements, small business exports represent about one third of total U.S. export value. However, these measures fail to take into account the value small businesses add to exports sold by large businesses. Using a…

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, T-MEC in Mexico and CUSMA in Canada) went into force on July 1st replacing the North America Free Trade Agreement. Under USMCA, small businesses can decrease risks and increase predictability…

On January 29, 2020, the United States-Mexico-Canada Implementation Act (USMCA) was signed into law. On July 1, 2020, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division released an Interim Final Rule (IFR) implementing a portion of the…

The International Trade Commission (ITC), at the request of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), is seeking public comment on the probable economic effect of providing duty-free treatment for imports of currently…