Trade Issues & Agreements
There are numerous trade issues and agreements that affect the United States and consequently, California. Each region and issue page below gives an overview, and links to related organizations and documents.
There are numerous trade issues and agreements that affect the United States and consequently, California. Each region and issue page below gives an overview, and links to related organizations and documents.
“The Indo-Pacific, which stretches from the United States west coast to the west coast of India, is a subject of great importance to American foreign policy,” said U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce gathering on Monday, July 30.
The trans-Atlantic economic partnership is a key driver of global economic growth, trade and prosperity, and represents the largest, most integrated and longest-standing regional economic relationship in the world. The many reasons to support this relationship come from an economic perspective, a geopolitical perspective, a company benefit perspective, as well as regulatory cooperation, and technological innovation perspectives.
U.S.-Canada Reach NAFTA Agreement Before Deadline, Branding New Pact the U.S.-Mexico-Canada-Agreement CalChamber, October 5, 2018
Generalized System of Preferences launched a new survey CA State Report – Renew GSP Today
On Monday, September 24 at the UN General Assembly in New York, President Trump signed the revised KORUS deal with South Korean President Moon Jae-in calling it a “brand new agreement”.
Capitol Report: CalChamber Voices Support for Transatlantic Partnership Agreement
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan signed the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement. It was the first FTA the United States entered into, and has served as a model for many future trade agreements. The FTA eliminates all custom duties between the two countries, and has resulted in a huge increase in the overall volume of bi-national trade to total over $35.6 billion in 2021. The U.S. exported over $14.2 billion to Israel in 2022.
The California Chamber of Commerce supported US-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement will go into effect on October 31, 2012. The agreement will significantly increase the ability of American companies to export their products to one of Latin America’s fastest-growing economies, while dramatically reducing the tariff rates across the range of US industrial and agricultural goods.
U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Now in Force! International Trade Administration Blog Post, May 15, 2012U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to Mark Entry-Into-Force of U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement, Celebrate World Trade MonthStatement by U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson on the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion AgreementSenate Finance Chair Baucus Hails Colombia FTA’s Entry Into ForceHouse Ways and Means Leaders Camp, Brady Statements on U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Entry Into Force Colombian Embassy Launches Newly Updated Website
United States and Singapore Hold Sixth Annual Free Trade Agreement Review
On April 12, 2006, Trade Representative Rob Portman and Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade, Alfredo Ferrero Diez Canseco, signed the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement in a ceremony at the Organization of American States. Since 2009, US exports to Peru have nearly doubled.
President Bush signed the US-CAFTA-DR on August 2, 2005, giving final U.S. approval of the agreement. This follows a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 28 of 217-215. Of California’s representatives to the House, 19 members voted in favor of the agreement, while 34 were opposed. To see how your representative voted, please see the U.S. House of Representatives roll call website.