Items Tagged with 'South Korea'

Senate Republican leadership is assembling one more package of Trump administration nominees for a floor vote this year.

The Trump administration says it has a deal with Switzerland that lowers agricultural trade barriers, particularly for beef and poultry.

Nine months into his second term, the administration has deployed tariffs on almost every U.S. trading partner. But how much additional agricultural market access has been negotiated so far?

President Donald Trump said Wednesday evening that his administration has secured an agreement with South Korea to reduce its reciprocal tariff rate from Aug. 1 in exchange for trade concessions.

Higher country-specific reciprocal tariffs that were unveiled on April 2 but postponed for 90 days to allow breathing room for negotiations are set to snap back into place on Friday. The Senate Ag Committee holds a hastily arranged hearing on Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins' sweeping plan to reorganize the department.

President Donald Trump wrote to a spate of world leaders on Monday to inform them that their countries’ exports will face higher tariff rates starting next month, while leaving the door open to further increases or negotiated tariff reductions.

Congressional Republicans return from their two-week recess facing the herculean task of finding agreement on a budget reconciliation bill that can enact President Donald Trump’s tax and spending priorities. USDA’s top trade nominee will get his confirmation hearing. The House GOP also is taking aim at California climate waivers and an endangered species designation.

USDA took a key step Thursday in rolling out its new $1.3 billion international trade initiative, the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, and unveiled plans for trade missions next year to Vietnam, India, South Korea, Canada, Colombia and Morocco.