In a series of joint statements published on November 13, 2025, the White House confirmed that a framework agreement on reciprocal trade had been reached with El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Argentina.
The agreement frameworks with El Salvador and Guatemala focus on reducing non-tariff barriers by streamlining U.S. export regulatory requirements, removing import restrictions on remanufactured goods, and eliminating reciprocal tariffs on certain Dominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) origin textile and apparel products.
Ecuador has committed to tariff reductions in “key sectors” for some U.S. agricultural products. In return, the U.S. has agreed to remove reciprocal tariffs on “certain qualifying exports from Ecuador that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States in sufficient quantities.”
Argentina has agreed to eliminate some non-tariff barriers, including import licensing, and will phase out the statistical tax for U.S. goods. The U.S. will remove reciprocal tariffs on “certain unavailable natural resources and non-patented articles for use in pharmaceutical applications.” Argentina will also provide preferential market access to certain U.S. exports, and both countries have committed to “bilateral market access conditions for trade in beef.”
These framework agreements are expected to be finalized in the “coming weeks.”
The joint statement for each respective framework can be found here:
The “President Donald J. Trump Announces Historic Trade Deals with Western Hemisphere Trading Partners” fact sheet can be found here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-historic-trade-deals-with-western-hemisphere-trading-partners/
