Industry groups are welcoming this weekend’s announcements of U.S. trade deals with Cambodia and Malaysia and “frameworks” with Vietnam and Thailand that call for the countries to drop any plans for digital service taxes or similar policies, alongside other concessions such as recognizing U.S. vehicle safety certifications and easing protections for geographic indicators.
October 28, 2025
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The U.S. and Mexico have agreed to continue trade talks for another few weeks as they close in on a deal, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday, a few days before a deadline for the talks set by President Trump over the summer.
President Trump has “guaranteed” the U.S. and Brazil eventually will ink a trade deal, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday following talks with U.S. officials.
The Trump administration should pursue “aggressive retaliatory actions” should France act on a proposed increase of its digital services tax rate to 15 percent, House Ways & Means Chair Jason Smith (R-MO) said on Monday, joined by tax subcommittee Chair Mike Kelly (R-PA) and trade subcommittee Chair Adrian Smith (R-NE).
Democrats in Congress and the Washington state government are pushing the Supreme Court to strike down President Trump’s International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs on separation-of-powers grounds, claiming that allowing the duties to stand would allow the president to seize “core” legislative powers in defiance of the constitution.
U.S. and Chinese negotiators are closing in on the “final details” of a framework trade agreement ahead of an expected meeting of the countries’ leaders later this week, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Sunday in Malaysia.
President Trump on Saturday said he will increase tariffs on Canadian goods by 10 percent, “over and above what they are paying now,” in retaliation for the Ontario government’s continued airing of a television ad that uses clips from a 1987 speech by Ronald Reagan to argue against Trump’s use of tariffs against U.S. trading partners.