DELIVERING ON RECIPROCAL TRADE: Today, President Donald J. Trump unveiled a significant trade agreement with Jordan.
- The U.S.-Jordan Agreement on Reciprocal Trade aims to dismantle longstanding trade barriers that have hindered U.S. exporters, opening new opportunities for essential American industries.
- This deal ensures commitments to promote peace, bolster regional cooperation, and enhance the resilience and innovation of supply chains. It includes joint efforts to tackle non-market policies of third countries and collaborate on investment security, export controls, and duty evasion.
- The announcement is set to pave the way for a future marked by peace, prosperity, and regional investment, with Jordan making historic commitments that will benefit U.S. manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, and other production sectors.
Key terms of the Agreement with Jordan include:
- Jordan will maintain duty-free market access for nearly all U.S. goods exported to the country.
- Commitments from Jordan to enhance trade with the United States include enforcing environmental laws, safeguarding labor rights by banning goods produced by forced labor, bolstering intellectual property protection, ensuring fair trade practices, and streamlining customs procedures.
- Jordan also plans to eliminate non-tariff trade barriers and broaden market access for U.S. goods, including agricultural products and motor vehicles.
- Both nations will strengthen their economic and national security alignment, enhancing supply chain resilience and innovation through actions that address the non-market policies of third countries and cooperation on investment security, export controls, and duty evasion.
- This Agreement builds on the longstanding economic relationship between the two nations, including the U.S.-Jordan Free Trade Agreement that took effect on December 17, 2001.
THE PROSPEROUS PATH FORWARD: Today’s announcement further solidifies America’s strategic partnership with one of its most valued allies in the Middle East. This fosters a reciprocal environment prioritizing American industries, protecting national security, and strengthening supply chains with key trading partners.
LIBERATING AMERICA FROM UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES: President Trump has questioned the assumption that American workers and businesses must endure unfair trade practices that have disadvantaged them for decades, contributing to the historic global trade deficit in goods.
- President Trump remains committed to advancing American interests and supporting the agricultural sector by eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers and expanding market access for American exporters.
- Jordan has committed to investing in American industry, including:
- Royal Jordanian Airlines’ purchase of six Boeing 787-9 aircraft valued at $1.4 billion and signing long-term leasing agreements for additional aircraft worth $500 million.
- Jordanian pharmaceutical company Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ announcement of a $1 billion investment in the United States.
- Jordanian businesses committing to purchase over $300 million in raw materials annually from the United States.
- President Trump has achieved significant victories for the American public through signing reciprocal trade agreements with countries like Argentina, Bangladesh, Cambodia, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Taiwan, securing U.S. investments from Japan and Korea, and establishing joint frameworks with the EU, the United Kingdom, North Macedonia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
- Today’s announcement demonstrates that America can protect its domestic industries while securing and maintaining expansive market access with international trade partners.
