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President Donald Trump should launch a “Manhattan Project program to dominate technology” and “restore American technological leadership,” said David P. Goldman, economist, author, senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and Asia Times columnist writing under the pseudonym “Spengler,” in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

The Chinese government allowed the tightly controlled yuan to fall to the lowest level in a decade after the U.S. imposed tariffs.

The “elite consensus” for an America with “open markets, open borders” and “open trade” disregards the needs of America’s working and middle class, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says. 

Foxconn, the Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer, is considering the sale of its new $8.8 billion display panel factory in China, according to a Friday-published Reuters report citing “people familiar with the matter.”

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka blasted Democrats for their globalist free trade agenda, as 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates have continued to embrace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

“They would like to see a new president in a year and half so they can continue to rip off the United States,” Trump said.

Just days after U.S. officials met with Chinese counterparts to resume trade talks, President Trump announced new tariffs.|

When talking about trade deals, Elizabeth Warren can sound a lot like Donald Trump. But when quizzed on specifics, she fades away.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) refused to answer questions about conditions in Baltimore despite defending Elijah Cummings from Trump’s criticisms.

Warren’s rhetoric is Trumpian. But unlike President Trump’s trade agenda, Warren’s lacks a focus on China.

PARIS (AP) – France is pushing ahead with a landmark tax on tech giants like Google and Facebook – despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of retaliatory tariffs on French wine.

“I’ve always like American wine better anyway,” Trump said. “I don’t drink wine but I like the way it looks.”

“Apple will not be given Tariff waiver, or relief, for Mac Pro parts that are made in China,” Trump wrote. “Make them in the USA, no Tariffs!”

A permanent 25 percent tariff on all imported goods to the United State from China would create more than one million American jobs by 2024, a new study concludes.

The IMF now expects world trade will grow 2.5% in 2019, nearly a full percentage point lower than the April forecast.

The South China Morning Post reports that trade talks in Beijing are likely to happen as early as next week.

Trump may not have many fans in the c-suites of corporate America but they are certainly helping his administration’s push back against China’s predatory mercantilism. Larry Fink, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, said in an interview Friday that companies are

Prices for goods in the U.S. dropped 0.4 percent in June even as tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports rose.

Tariffs have not pushed up consumer prices. The consumer price index ticked up just 0.1 percent in June, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Compared with a year ago, prices rose just 1.6 percent, a deceleration of price gains from

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that it was appropriate for the Fed to cut rates if concerns about trade and tariffs were slowing the economy.

In June, small business owners curbed spending, sales expectations and profits both fell, and plans for hiring declined.

This could allay fears that the Trump administration has gone too far in easing restrictions on the Chinese telecom company.

A small rise in the trade deficit in May masks a much larger shift in U.S. trade away from China and toward our allies.

“The super-hawks are now attacking the president for concessions and for reversing himself. This is just fake news,” Pillsbury said.

Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Earl “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) applauded President Donald Trump’s efforts in trade negotiations with China. Carter said the temporary deal made between China and the United States is “good news” and shows

“We had a very good meeting with President Xi of China. Excellent, I would say excellent,” Trump said Saturday morning.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on Friday.

Consumers feel good about the economy now and are less worried about the future than they were a year ago.

China wants the U.S. to drop its tariffs even before trade talks begin, a demand so extreme that it could prevent further talks

President Trump’s economic nationalist fight against Chinese dominance is the “number one issue” driving Hispanic voters to back the president in the 2020 presidential election, a campaign official says.

During an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News Channel, senior White House trade adviser Peter Navarro praised the tariffs used by President Donald Trump. According to Navarro, the tariffs achieved more in two days on immigration than Congress

About seven-in-ten Republican voters support tariffs on Chinese imports to protect American jobs and U.S. industries from unfair foreign competition, a new poll finds.

Consumers expect long-term a inflation rate of just 2.2 percent, the lowest rate recorded over the past 40 years.

May industrial output figures from the Fed show the manufacturing sector is holding up better than expected amid trade war with China.

A California furniture and hardware company is planning to expand its manufacturing in the United States thanks to President Trump’s tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese imports. 

The idea that tariffs would drive up prices is finally fading from respectability. | %%primary_category%%