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The Trump administration since January 2025 has announced a string of bilateral “reciprocal” trade agreements, frameworks, and fact sheets naming at least the United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, So...
In 2025 President Donald J. Trump issued roughly 217–218 executive orders, dozens of memoranda and proclamations, and a sweeping “America First” trade memorandum on his first day — moves that rapidily...
finalized a mix of bilateral trade agreements and framework deals with countries across the Western Hemisphere, Asia, and Europe in 2025, while also striking ; key affected sectors included agricultur...
The United States has filed formal trade complaints against Canada over dairy access — notably a USMCA case launched in 2021 and a second challenge in late 2022 that resulted in a November 2023 panel ...
Canada does not currently publish a list of specific U.S. cheese “types” that are universally banned; instead, Canadian rules mainly prohibit the sale of cheeses made from unpasteurized (raw) milk unl...
The United States and Argentina announced a framework for a reciprocal trade-and-investment agreement in November 2025 — a framework, not a finalized comprehensive trade pact — alongside a separate U....
President Trump’s 2018 tariffs on China were anchored by three coordinated actions: targeting Chinese technology and intellectual-property-linked goods, major national-security tariffs on steel and al...
No — available trade data show that while is a major overall supplier of manufactured goods to the ( of dollars a year), it is not the primary source of U.S. produce: U.S. imports of vegetable/fruit/n...
Canada’s supply-management system keeps steep over‑quota dairy tariffs—commonly cited around 241%–298% (e.g., 241% on fluid milk, 298% on butter)—and limits how much U.S. dairy can enter duty‑free und...
The core of Donald Trump’s second-term cabinet in 2025 was a mix of familiar Trump loyalists, media personalities turned officials, and political allies elevated to high-profile roles — with Vice Pres...
Donald Trump’s first term produced one major trilateral agreement he negotiated and signed: the USMCA, signed November–December 2018 and in force July 1, 2020 . After the 2024 election, reporting and ...
Donald Trump’s 2025 economic agenda emphasizes big tax cuts, sweeping tariffs and deregulation and has produced mixed near‑term readings: the White House cites 3.8% Q2 GDP and “explosive growth” from ...
Canada and the United States remain deeply integrated: U.S. goods imports from Canada were about US$421.2 billion in 2024 while Canadian exports to the U.S. were roughly US$419.8 billion in 2024 (COMT...
Canada controls U.S. milk imports through a mix of trade-managed quotas and high over‑quota tariffs, detailed import permits and tariff‑rate quotas (TRQs) under the Export and Import Permits Act, and ...
President Trump assembled a largely conservative, loyalty-heavy second-term Cabinet with rapid confirmations for several controversial picks — including Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary and Robert F....
did not “already have everything” that claimed to have secured in the new deal; the largely preserved ’s duty‑free architecture while adding targeted changes — some modest and technical, some potentia...
A sequence of dispute panels has produced concrete findings that forced Ottawa to tweak how it administers its 14 dairy tariff‑rate quotas (TRQs)—most notably by rejecting ’s practice of reserving lar...
Tariff revenue collected at the border is treated as federal revenue, not automatically earmarked to specific programs such as Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) or to fund customs enforcement; collect...
The Trans‑Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a 12‑nation trade pact led by the United States under President Barack Obama to reduce tariffs and set “21st‑century” rules on trade, covering about 40% of worl...
Available reporting does not offer a single dataset that lists “which industries were most impacted by average tariff rates in 2020” for both the USA and the EU; instead, sources give average applied ...