Insights and Stories of Andrea Shalal

Trump’s trade chief nominee Greer says universal tariff needs more study

Feb. 6, 2025 at 4:08 pm CST

Jamieson Greer, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. trade representative, said on Thursday that a universal tariff needs further study to gauge its impact on rising U.S. trade deficits, and put countries on notice they must lower import barriers to maintain access to the U.S. market.

Trump launches trade war with tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China

Feb. 1, 2025 at 4:51 pm CST

By Andrea Shalal David Lawder Jarrett Renshaw Reuters

Trump set to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on Feb. 1 White House says

Jan. 31, 2025 at 10:33 am CST

By Andrea Shalal David Lawder Reuters

No day-one tariffs coming from Trump, but trade overhaul planned, official says

Jan. 20, 2025 at 1:26 pm CST

By Andrea Shalal David Lawder Steve Holland

India to allow imports of U.S. pork and products

Jan. 10, 2022 at 7:16 pm CST

By Andrea Shalal

Canada violated CUSMA pact by reserving dairy quotas, panel finds

Jan. 4, 2022 at 2:47 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Canada violated a trade accord with the U.S. and Mexico by reserving most of its preferential dairy tariff-rate quotas for Canadian processors, a dispute panel found, and Washington warned it could retaliate if Ottawa did not change course. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office claimed victory for […]

By Andrea Shalal David Ljunggren

U.S. packer profit margins jumped 300 per cent during pandemic, economists say

Dec. 10, 2021 at 8:04 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — Four of the biggest meat-processing companies, using their market power in the highly consolidated U.S. market to drive up meat prices and underpay farmers, have tripled their own net profit margins since the pandemic started, White House economics advisers said. Financial statements of the meat-processing companies […]

By Andrea Shalal

New U.S. trade chief Tai focused on CUSMA, China ties in calls

Mar. 22, 2021 at 9:31 pm CDT

Washington | Reuters — New U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai mapped out her priorities and Washington’s desire to rebuild alliances in initial calls on Monday with her counterparts from Canada, Britain and the European Union. Tai, sworn in Thursday as President Joe Biden’s top trade negotiator, emphasized climate change, racial […]

By Andrea Shalal David Lawder

Nigeria’s Okonjo-Iweala makes history as new head of WTO

Feb. 15, 2021 at 10:47 pm CST

Geneva/Washington | Reuters — Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to become the first woman and first African director-general of the World Trade Organization. A self-declared “doer” with a track record of taking on seemingly intractable problems, […]

By Andrea Shalal emma-farge

Trump visits Iowa as officials warn storm destroyed corn crops

Aug. 18, 2020 at 7:28 pm CDT

Cedar Rapids | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers and state officials from Iowa said on Tuesday that much of the state’s corn crop will not be harvested following a fierce windstorm last week, as President Donald Trump visited to review the damage. The destruction from the Aug. 10 derecho storm compounded […]

By Andrea Shalal

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