GENEVA – Today, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent met with President Karin Keller-Sutter and Vice President Guy Parmelin of the Swiss Confederation in Geneva. Both sides agreed to accelerate negotiations on reciprocal trade. The United States welcomes Switzerland’s ambition in these negotiations. USTR looks forward to continuing our negotiations over the next several weeks.

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WASHINGTON – The Office of the United States Trade Representative has invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to review whether workers at Amphenol Optimize México, S.A. de C.V. (Amphenol), located in the cities of Nogales and Hermosillo in Sonora, Mexico, are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.

WASHINGTON – Today, Ambassador Jamieson Greer issued the following statement on President Trump’s announcement of a deal between the United States and the United Kingdom to promote reciprocal trade. Today’s agreement in principle lays the groundwork to reduce tariffs on U.S. products, remove discriminatory trade barriers for U.S. agricultural and industrial goods in the United Kingdom, give U.S. producers reciprocal market access, negotiate strong digital trade provisions, and achieve economic security alignment.

ACHIEVING RECIPROCAL TRADE: Today, President Donald J. Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a historic trade deal, providing American companies unprecedented access to the UK market while bolstering U.S. national security.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will travel to Geneva, Switzerland later this week. Ambassador Greer will meet with USTR staff at the USTR Mission to the World Trade Organization (WTO). He will also meet with President Karin Keller-Sutter of Switzerland to discuss negotiations about reciprocal trade. 

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Secretary of the Treasury Scott K.H. Bessent, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick met with Economic Revitalization Minister Akazawa Ryosei of Japan.

Ambassador Greer welcomed Japan’s engagement with the United States following recent meetings with President Donald J. Trump and other members of the United States government. 

CHARLOTTE — The United States and United Kingdom jointly convened the 9th U.S.-UK Small- and Medium-Sized (SME) Dialogue in Charlotte, North Carolina. Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Small Business Christina Sevilla and Oliver Christian, His Majesty's Trade Commissioner for North America, opened the SME Dialogue. The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Associate Administrator for Manufacturing and Trade Lisa Shimkat also provided remarks on small business manufacturing. The event was hosted by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S.

WASHINGTON — On the 29th of April, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, together with the United States Department of the Treasury, hosted representatives of the European Commission in Washington for the seventh meeting of the Joint Committee established under the 2017 U.S.-EU Agreement on Prudential Measures Regarding Insurance and Reinsurance (“the Agreement”).

WASHINGTON — Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2025 Special 301 Report on the adequacy and effectiveness of U.S. trading partners’ protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights.