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President Joe Biden’s Department of Commerce has sided with Chinese solar manufacturers who produce in Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, denying a request to investigate the manufacturers for evading United States tariffs on Chinese products. 

President Joe Biden’s administration is considering providing tariff exemptions for more than 500 products made in China — a potential boon to corporations who continue offshoring to the communist country.

The British government on Tuesday began talks to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), an 11-member bloc that China and Taiwan also aspire to join.

China filed an application on Thursday to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Current members Japan and Australia, and prospective member Taiwan, were not enthusiastic about Beijing’s request.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Congress must qualify the political nature of oppression in Cuba as “communist,” “Marxist,” and “socialist.”

France is investgating four fashion companies for the alleged use of slave labour in the Xinjiang region of China.

The UK is negotiating to join the Pacific trade partnership as it explores new opportunities around the world post-Brexit.

The United Steelworkers union, along with other manufacturing groups, says former President Trump’s tariffs on imported steel “have been a success,” urging President Joe Biden to keep the tariffs in place.

With its growing economy, India has been high on London’s list of trade deal targets since Britain left the European Union last year.

A slim majority of Republican voters now see foreign trade as a threat to the United States economy, a Gallup survey reveals.

The Ford Motor Company, a multinational automaker, is reportedly planning to move a $900 million investment originally intended for an Avon Lake, Ohio plant to a site in Mexico, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union alleges.

The federal government certified nearly 109,000 Americans last year as having lost their jobs due to free trade and globalization, federal data show.

United States Trade Representative nominee Katherine Tai says U.S. tariffs on foreign imports are “a legitimate tool in the trade toolbox” after reportedly shutting down corporate interests in their efforts to eliminate tariffs.

The United States Chamber of Commerce is cheering the newly confirmed head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who has the backing of China. 

Britain is taking advantage of its newfound autonomy from the EU to apply for membership of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

The United States Chamber of Commerce is lobbying for a return to the job-killing free trade consensus that has governed the Washington, DC, political establishments for three decades as the group seeks to cozy up to the incoming Biden administration. 

The nominee to become the next United States Trade Representative, Katherine Tai, says U.S. trade policy “must benefit regular Americans” and is vowing a “worker-centered trade policy.” 

United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer says President Trump’s commitment to economic nationalism “changed the way people think about China” as free trade globalists admit their failures.

House Republicans and Democrats are joining retail corporations to ask United States Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer to reduce tariffs on China in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

Democrat Joe Biden is lining up a team of economic advisers who remain committed to their belief that globalization of the United States economy is beneficial to Americans, a report by the Wall Street Journal states.

China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday expected the prospective Biden administration to have more of an appetite for “multilateralism” than President Donald Trump, but lamented a skeptical American electorate and divided Congress will keep Biden from seeing things completely Beijing’s way.

Chinese state media spent the weekend celebrating the announcement of a massive trade deal with 14 other Asia-Pacific nations — including key U.S. allies like Japan, South Korea, and Australia, but not the United States itself — as the “end of U.S. hegemony in the West Pacific.”

Democrat Joe Biden has chosen Ronald Klain to be his chief of staff should he enter the White House in January. Klain worked on behalf of Silicon Valley executives and their interests, which include providing tech corporations with an endless supply of H-1B foreign visa workers and more free trade.

Charles Koch, the billionaire GOP mega-donor, says he is looking forward to working with former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on issues like immigration even though the presidential election has not yet been certified.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says the Republican Party’s future is “based on a multiethnic, multiracial working class coalition” that is skeptical about free trade, big business, and elites throughout the nation’s institutions — the base that President Trump coalesced for his 2016 and 2020 economic nationalist campaigns. 

President Trump, during a campaign rally in Waterford Township, Michigan, blasted Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s globalist record that has shipped millions of American jobs to Mexico and China over the last three decades. 

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s plans to return the United States to more normal trade relations with China is a win for Wall Street investors, JPMorgan Chase analysts say. 

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s plan for more immigration to the United States and more free trade will boost the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), economists with Moody’s Analytics say. 

Another hole has been punched in the leftist promise of a so-called “green jobs revolution”, as wind turbine manufacturing jobs are sent to Communist-run China and the Middle East.

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is rebuking the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) ruling on Tuesday that deemed illegal U.S. tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese-made goods. 

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden defended his supporting China’s entering the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, saying he was not “naive” about the global superpower. 

Joe Biden’s Democrats want the United Kingdom to remain permanently shackled to the rotting corpse of the European Union. Of course he does.

The Taiwanese government announced relaxed restrictions on imported American beef and pork this weekend, a move President Tsai Ing-wen hoped would “boost Taiwan-U.S. ties” and build international trust.

President Donald Trump stated during his Republican National Convention speech that he has done more for black Americans than Biden has done in 47 years in elected office.

During the fourth evening of the Republican National Convention (RNC), President Trump slammed Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden for taking the donations of American workers while helping to offshore their jobs to China and abroad. 

Debbie Flood, the owner of a cast bronze architectural hardware manufacturer in Schofield, Wisconsin, blasted Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s record on normalizing United States trade with China that she says gutted her business before President Trump ushered in his economic nationalist agenda.