▲ This file photo, released by UPI, shows U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaking during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 16, 2026. (Yonhap)

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U.S. to host G20 trade ministerial talks in Wisconsin this fall to discuss forced labor, excess capacity

By Song Sang-ho

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Yonhap) -- The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said Tuesday it will host the Group of 20 (G20) trade ministers' meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this fall to discuss ending forced labor, address structural excess capacity and production, and other key issues.

USTR Jamieson Greer plans to host the meeting scheduled to take place on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, before U.S. President Donald Trump hosts the leader-level G20 meeting in Miami, Florida, on Dec. 14 and 15, according to the office.

The ministerial meeting will cover a wide array of issues, including updating the most-favored nation principle and denouncing the "weaponization" of trade in food, it said.

"President Trump's tariff program is actively rebalancing global trade, reversing decades of non-market policies and practices to protect American workers and businesses," Greer said in a release.

"The Trump Administration looks forward to working with our G20 partners to establish a global trading order based on fair, reciprocal, and balanced trade," he added.

In pursuit of what it calls fairness and reciprocity in trade, the United States is conducting trade investigations into 16 economies, including South Korea, China and Japan, to uncover "unfair" trade practices related to structural excess capacity and production in manufacturing sectors.

It is also carrying out investigations into 60 economies, including South Korea, China and Japan, to determine whether their governments have taken sufficient steps to ban the importation of goods produced with forced labor.

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