The Salt Lake City-based World Trade Center, where the mission is to grow Utah companies through global networking and boosting international trade, is ramping up its visibility and the roster of companies that might make use of the zone.

A federal appeals court will soon hear oral arguments in a high-profile lawsuit challenging Trump's authority to impose sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs. The case is the furthest along of more than half a dozen federal cases targeting Trump's imposition of tariffs using an emergency-powers law known as IEEPA.

The agreements have been overshadowed by U.S. firms' warnings that the tariffs will affect their bottom lines and prolong uncertainty in the economy.