Mnuchin’s rise didn’t last long. After the meetings in Washington, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced that trade war with China was “on hold” only to have the administration announce a short while later that it was preparing the apply tariffs to $50 billion of Chinese technology imports.
President Donald Trump hinted at the need for a “different structure” for a bilateral trade deal with China just one day after the Commerce Department’s Tuesday determination that China has been using Vietnam to circumvent anti-steel dumping measures.
U.S. trade negotiators will head back to China to work out details of an agreement between the two nations reached during continued trade negotiations this week resulted in a joint framework to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China.
Larry Kudlow has not been at the center of the internal White House battle over China and trade. But he was almost shut out of talks with Chinese officials set to kick-off Thursday because of it.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will continue to lead Trump administration officials holding trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in Washington, DC, on Thursday and Friday with a focus on “rebalancing” the U.S.-China bilateral economic relationship.
China’s top economic adviser will travel to Washington, DC, to continue trade talks next week with top Trump administration officials following the U.S. trade delegation’s trip to China last week.
Five top Trump administration officials are returning from two days of trade meetings with officials in China, bringing with them the message that the administration needs to give “immediate attention” to changing the U.S.-China trade and investment relationship.
“If you don’t take some risks and you don’t show you are willing to absorb a little bit of pain, how on earth are you going to get things changed?” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said.
Top Trump administration economic officials are headed to China in the second half of this week to discuss trade contentions between the two nations.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has proven himself to be one of President Trump’s greatest allies in the quest for economic nationalism with his defiance of the Washington, D.C., political establishment in deciding to add the citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
The majority of Americans say the United States is not tough enough when it comes to China’s growing economic dominance.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders emphasized that President Trump is interested in making “good” deals when asked during a Tuesday press briefing about the progress of NAFTA negotiations.
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President Trump is expected to unveil a massive “package of tariffs” against China in the coming weeks, multiple sources close to the White House told Politico.
Officials with influence on trade policy inside the White House believe that imposing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico in the near term, only to remove them within months if a new Nata deal is reached, would be unnecessarily disruptive.
“Our time is running very short,” Lighthizer said Monday during a press conference at the end of the seventh round of negotiations in Mexico City.
Senior administration officials quashed a letter from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff recommending the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer negotiate to end a little-known visa program that permits tens of thousands of Canadian and Mexican white-collar workers to work in America.
Trump acts to protect American makers of solar cells and washing machines from cheap foreign imports.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, charged with implementing President Donald Trump’s economic nationalist trade agenda, has come under fire from some Republican senators, according to a Tuesday report from The Hill.
The top U.S. trade official attacked Chinese mercantilism and abuse of the WTO courts at a trade meeting in Argentina.
Axios’ Jonathan Swan reports on the increasing influence of President Trump’s trade negotiator Robert Lighthizer who is “increasingly winning internal arguments over the administration’s inevitable economic confrontation with China.”
President Donald Trump says what millions of Americans have known for 25 years but no politician had the brains to understand or the guts to say: NAFTA has been a disaster.
The top U.S. trade official says he is surprised and disappointed in the resistance of Canada and Mexico to changing NAFTA.
President Donald Trump celebrated farmers in Iowa on Wednesday, vowing to help protect the legacy of American farms.
Vice President Mike Pence presided over the swearing-in of the eighteenth United States Trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, on Monday in the White House Indian Treaty Room, declaring, “And with this ceremony, President Donald Trump’s cabinet is finally complete.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly thundered against NAFTA, promising a “massive” renegotiation of the trade deal, but his attempts are just getting started.
The Chinese state media has invoked former President Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” rhetoric in addressing President-Elect Donald Trump’s discussions of possible tariffs.
President-elect Donald Trump is meeting on Tuesday with Jovita Carranza, the founder and CEO of the JCR Group and former deputy administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration, as he focuses on who will be his administration’s trade representative.
