The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today released The Year in Trade 2014, its annual overview of the previous year's trade-related activities.

The USITC's The Year in Trade is one of the government's most comprehensive reports of U.S. trade-related activities, covering major multilateral, regional, and bilateral developments. The publication reviews U.S. international trade laws and actions under these laws, activities of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and developments regarding U.S. free trade agreements (FTAs), FTA negotiations, and U.S. bilateral trade relations with major trading partners in 2014.

The Year in Trade 2014 includes complete listings of antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard, intellectual property rights infringement, and section 301 cases undertaken by the U.S. government in 2014.  In addition, the 2014 report covers:

• the operation of U.S. trade preference programs, including the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, and the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act, including initiatives for Haiti;
• significant activities in the WTO, including dispute settlement decisions;  the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum;
• developments regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement, other U.S. FTAs, and  negotiations regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and
• bilateral trade issues with major U.S. trading partners -- the European Union, Canada, China, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, and India.

The report also provides an overview of U.S. trade in goods and services during 2014. Statistical tables highlight U.S. bilateral trade with major trading partners and trade under U.S. trade preference programs and free trade agreements. 

Complementing the release of the 66th edition of the report are a series of dashboards in MS Excel available online that present U.S. merchandise trade data in an interactive format.  Readers of The Year in Trade 2014 will be able to conduct further analysis of U.S. merchandise trade with specific trading partners and U.S. trade under specific trade preference programs and FTAs using these dashboards, which are available on the Commission's website at http://www.usitc.gov/research_and_analysis/data_analysis_tools.htm.

The Year in Trade 2014 (USITC publication 4543, July 2015) is available on the USITC's Internet site at http://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/pub4543.pdf.