Trade policy
China has lashed out over a visit to Taiwan by British Trade Policy Minister Greg Hands, the latest foreign official to defy Beijing’s warnings over contacts with the self-governing island republic.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has picked Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department, helping set trade policy and promote U.S. opportunities for growth domestically and overseas.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spent four years upending seven decades of American trade policy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the House progressives: a pair of impeachment articles against President Donald Trum
BIARRITZ, France (AP) — Injecting fresh uncertainty at a time of global economic jitters, President Donald Trump sent mixed messages Sunday on the U.S.
BIARRITZ, France (AP) — Injecting fresh uncertainty at a time of global economic jitters, President Donald Trump sent mixed messages Sunday on the U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) — Lance Ruttenberg knows too well how fast President Donald Trump’s China trade policies can change.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s aggressive and wildly unpredictable use of tariffs is spooking American business groups, which have long formed a potent force in his Republican Party.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even with President Donald Trump backing off his threat to slap tariffs on goods from Mexico, his transformation of Republican Party trade policy is nearly complete.
WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s been contradicted by one of his top advisers, dinged in regular fact checks and called out by top economists.
WASHINGTON — His tractor is so noisy that, when driving it, the man who calls himself “just a farmer from Butler County” puts his cellphone under his cap, set on vibrate.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ top financial official said Monday that unsettled trade policy by the Trump administration and economic “uncertainty” is clouding the spending picture as returning lawmakers face costly expenses including a public school funding overhaul and Hurricane Harvey’s aftermath.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump floated the idea this past week of using tariffs to make America rich, as if these taxes are a pipeline of cash from Asia, which they’re not.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traded barbs in speeches at a summit of world leaders Saturday, outlining competing visions for global leadership as trade and other tensions between them simmer.
It’s almost Thanksgiving week, so let’s be generous: The White House trade policy, marked by its heavy use of import tariffs and presidential tweets, continues to confound economists and trading partners alike.
President Donald Trumps big moves in recent months on international trade and tariffs have Minnesotans split, with more people disapproving of his actions, according to a new Star Tribune/MPR News Minnesota Poll.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Farmers worry about falling crop prices and lost sales overseas. Manufacturers fear rising costs and new foreign taxes on their exports.
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump pulled the plug on an upcoming trip to North Korea by his secretary of state, he pointed a finger of blame at China and the global superpower’s trade practices.
The Trump Administration’s good cop/bad cop approach to U.S. trade policy was on full display Aug. 27 when President Donald J.
Canada and the United States have one of the world’s largest investment relationships. Sharing the longest international border of any nation, United States and Canada also share the world’s biggest and most comprehensive trading relationship.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer than half of Americans expect President Donald Trump’s tariffs to do much to help the U.S. economy, but their widespread unpopularity hasn’t led most Republicans to stray from supporting the president’s trade policy as the 2018 midterm elections approach.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s trade policies are turning long-established Republican orthodoxy on its head, marked by tariff fights and now $12 billion in farm aid that represents the type of government intervention GOP voters railed against a decade ago.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s trade policy (all times local):
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President Donald Trump says he and the European Union Commission president “love each other!”
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President Donald Trump says he and the European Union Commission president “love each other!”
WASHINGTON (AP) — So is this what a trade war looks like?
The Trump administration and China’s leadership have imposed tens of billions of dollars in tariffs on each other’s goods.
The Trump administration and China’s leadership have imposed tens of billions of dollars in tariffs on each other’s goods.
WASHINGTON (AP) — So is this what a trade war looks like?
The Trump administration and China’s leadership have imposed tens of billions of dollars in tariffs on each other’s goods.
The Trump administration and China’s leadership have imposed tens of billions of dollars in tariffs on each other’s goods.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump denied Tuesday that his trade policy is to blame for Harley-Davidson’s decision to shift some motorcycle production overseas, saying on Twitter that the company is using “Tariffs/Trade War as an excuse” to hide previously announced plans to move jobs to Asia.
President Donald Trump touts his trade policy as long-overdue action to help America’s workers and industries, but some economists warn that tariffs he has placed or is threatening to place on China and Chinese retaliation to them could actually bolster other countries at the expense of the U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pointing to damage done to home-state companies, lawmakers from both parties Wednesday criticized tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on imported steel and aluminum products in the name of national security.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a tool of national trade policy, tariffs had long been fading into history, a relic of 19th and early 20th centuries that most experts regarded as mutually harmful to all nations involved.
The Trump administration has so far avoided a trade fight with Europe by temporarily exempting it from hefty steel and aluminum tariffs.
The White House downplayed the huge drop in the stock market Friday, saying President Trump’s tough trade policy for China would pay off in the long term.