Trade policy

China lashes out at visit by UK trade minister to Taiwan

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.

G7 nations to take tougher line on trade with China

Senate confirms Katherine Tai as Biden’s top trade envoy

Biden treads carefully around Trump’s combative trade policy

Britain’s Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal

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Biden picks Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo as commerce secretary

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.

Trump trade policy: 4 years of high drama. Limited results.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spent four years upending seven decades of American trade policy.

Pelosi offers some trade policy with that impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the House progressives: a pair of impeachment articles against President Donald Trum

Trump sends mixed messages to China on trade war

BIARRITZ, France (AP) — Injecting fresh uncertainty at a time of global economic jitters, President Donald Trump sent mixed messages Sunday on the U.S.

Trump sends mixed messages to China on trade war

BIARRITZ, France (AP) — Injecting fresh uncertainty at a time of global economic jitters, President Donald Trump sent mixed messages Sunday on the U.S.

Retailers wrestle with a volatile trade policy with China

NEW YORK (AP) — Lance Ruttenberg knows too well how fast President Donald Trump’s China trade policies can change.

Businesses showing discontent with Trump’s trade policies

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.

Free traders no more? GOP warms up to Trump’s use of tariffs

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.

Trump’s defense of tariffs based on dubious claims

WASHINGTON (AP) — He’s been contradicted by one of his top advisers, dinged in regular fact checks and called out by top economists.

Tractor-man Rides Herd

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.

Texas booming but lawmakers warned of economic ‘uncertainty’

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.

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s thin grasp of trade, science policy

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.

Pence, Xi trade barbs in speeches at Pacific summit

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.

Sonny warned ‘em — twice, in fact

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.

Minnesota Poll shows splits on trade policy, tariffs

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.

As midterms near, Trump gambles on his hardline trade policy

WASHINGTON (AP) — Farmers worry about falling crop prices and lost sales overseas. Manufacturers fear rising costs and new foreign taxes on their exports.

Trump sees mixing trade, foreign policy as good politics

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 carrot, the stick and you

The Trump Administration’s good cop/bad cop approach to U.S. trade policy was on full display Aug. 27 when President Donald J.

U.S. trade relations with Canada

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.

AP-NORC Poll: Americans not enthused with Trump trade policy

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.

On trade policy, Trump is turning GOP orthodoxy on its head

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.

The Latest: Trump tweets US, EU ‘love each other!’

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!”

Trump’s tariffs: What they are and how they will work

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.

Trump’s tariffs: What they are and how they will work

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.

Trump denies he’s to blame for Harley-Davidson decision

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.

Minnesota’s soybean sales could take big hit if China tariffs proceed

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.

Lawmakers rip tariffs enacted in name of national security

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.

Trump’s tariffs: What they are and how they would work

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.

How US small businesses can navigate the trade wars

The Trump administration has so far avoided a trade fight with Europe by temporarily exempting it from hefty steel and aluminum tariffs.

White House downplays big drop in stock market

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.