Chinese ports had their busiest week in history ahead of the approaching summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, extending a boom in shipments abroad in a possible sign exporters were rushing goods out of the country as uncertainty hovered over tariffs.

“Even if we wanted to supply [potash] to other, Western markets, we simply do not have those volumes,” said the Belarusian president.

Reviving a Biden-era effort, the Trump administration wants its allies to link arms on steel market protections to keep out surplus Chinese production.

Sugar importers are likely using molasses shipped through Canada to dodge tariffs. An effort to clamp down on the practice may have missed the mark.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick does not want his agency fueling one of the president’s biggest political vulnerabilities.

Canada is united in standing up to President Donald Trump's tariffs. The reverse cannot be said for the U.S.

Trump announced a “DEAL” on Tuesday night. Then things went south. Now the $1 trillion trade relationship is unraveling.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has hit a staffing low point even as its workload expands exponentially. Former officials say it is taking a toll.

Jamieson Greer said Donald Trump’s threat to slap 100% tariffs on European countries with digital services taxes is “not a bluff.”

A deal to avoid 50 percent duties on some Canadian goods is on Trump's desk, as Ottawa and Washington work towards a broader trade agreement.

The legislation faces another potentially uphill battle in the House come September.

Monday’s complaint is the latest in a series of new legal challenges to President Donald Trump's forced labor tariffs.

The announcement comes ahead of the Friday expiration of a current 10 percent global duty.

A year after Donald Trump shook hands with Ursula von der Leyen on a trade deal, POLITICO assesses how their commitments have held up.

The U.S. trade representative has told several countries they could face investigations similar to Germany's, spurring discussions over possible off-ramps.

The president reiterated a threat to cut off trade with Spain while attending the NATO Summit in Turkey.

The Brazilian presidential hopeful told officials at a hearing on Tuesday he lobbied U.S. leadership last month to suspend the duties.

Commissioners found market conditions have not changed since the agency last considered the issue and tariffs remain necessary to protect domestic producers.

The Trump administration is expected to rely largely on executive authorities with Canada and Mexico that a future president could reinterpret, revise or unwind.

Thursday’s vote prolongs the suspension of the EU’s retaliatory tariffs; its duration is still being negotiated.

A bipartisan group of more than 100 lawmakers on Wednesday called on the Trump administration to launch a probe into unfair trade practices from sugar-producing countries.

U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer, Rep. Thomas Massie & Rep. Jamie Raskin were on "This Week" Sunday, May 17. This is a rush transcript and may be updated.

For the two U.S. companies that make life-saving ready-to-use therapeutic food – the dense paste most widely recognized as Plumpy’Nut – the first year of the second Trump administration has been a tur...

All eyes are moving to the Senate following the House passage of its farm bill Thursday. Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman, R-Ark, is eyeing the end of May or early June for a bill marku...

U.S. and Canadian tribes have accused the European Union of failing to honor a United Nations charter on Indigenous rights when it crafted its forthcoming deforestation rule.

Discussions are ongoing within the Trump administration on whether to lift countervailing duties (CVDs) applied to Moroccan and Russian fertilizer imports, with the Agriculture Department and the Offi...

The administration is standing up a system to handle up to $175 billion in tariff refunds that will launch Monday, as Democrats see another opportunity to needle the administration on the cost of livi...

U.S. ag exporters are celebrating a ruling from an appeals court that blocked an effort to redefine when shipping carriers are unfairly refusing services to would-be exporters. Analysts say an even bi...

The U.K. prime minister hit back saying he will not yield to the U.S. president’s threats.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday it is putting forward Undersecretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Luke Lindberg as its candidate to lead the United Nations World Food Program.

Fertilizer producers Mosaic and Simplot said this week they support keeping countervailing duties on Moroccan and Russian phosphate fertilizer in the five-year review now underway.

Altered rates on finished products made with the metals would simplify compliance, but could effectively raise costs for many imports.

The Trump administration has been looking into whether to mount a trade investigation into the impacts of sugar on domestic industry, according to three people familiar with the situation, which could...

The Trump administration has missed a deadline for reallocating unfilled tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for sugar imports, rankling importers that rely on the quotas for affordable product.

As the administration's new tariff instruments begin to take shape, they offer clues as to how the administration plans to wield tariffs in the second year of Trump’s term.

A renewed Feed the Future focus on prosperity within the Western Hemisphere has some former labs rethinking their grant applications.

Chinese authorities are rejecting more food and agricultural imports at the border, particularly from countries with intensifying trade frictions, as Beijing adds a new trade tool to its arsenal.