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The U.S. Trade Representative will lead pivotal, top-level trade meetings with China’s delegation at the White House this week.

Another Chinese tech company that cannot operate without buying from U.S. tech companies.

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, declares itself for Team Huawei.

A German forklift maker is planning to expand manufacturing in the United States to avoid being hit with tariffs in China that President Donald Trump has imposed to protect American industry and jobs.

D.C.-based trade meetings with China’s top economic official are still on for the end of the month, a White House official said, refuting reports Tuesday they were called off.

The U.S. faces a January 30 deadline to formally request extradition from Canada for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

President Donald Trump called on China to do a ‘Real Deal’ after numbers revealed it is experiencing the slowest economic expansion in 28 years.

China says it will buy more U.S. products but there is no sign of progress on tougher issues at stake in the trade dispute.

Total industrial production rose 4.0 percent in 2018, much higher than 2.9 percent in 2017 and 2016’s paltry 0.5 percent gain.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) says past Republican and Democrat presidents have been “the valets” for multinational corporations and business lobbyists with their support for job-killing multilateral free trade deals.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s first effort on trade in 2019 is to tank legislation that would allow President Donald Trump to impose reciprocal tariffs on specific foreign imports, Breitbart News has learned.

Lighthizer still opposes giving in but President Donald Trump is reportedly pressuring him to get a China deal done.

As the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) turns 25 this year, American manufacturing jobs and U.S. workers’ wages continue trying to come back after more than a decade of massive layoffs and stagnant pay.

The trade truce may wind up with no deal and tariffs going up.

December price data defy predictions that tariffs would push price levels higher.

Even with tariffs, the trade gap is still growing.

China’s top economic official will “likely” visit the U.S. for trade talks in January according to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

Consumer prices on many items subject to tariffs actually fell in December, defying predictions that the trade war would weigh on American consumers.

Economic patriots are urging President Trump to not back down from China on trade negotiations and are asking for more tariffs on Chinese imports to level the playing field for American producers. 

China appears willing to buy more products and services from the U.S. but the larger issues remain unresolved.

So much for the blarney about tariffs hurting U.S. manufacturers.

A Chinese official named Guan Zhaojin, formerly head of customs in the busy port city of Dalian, is under investigation for helping professional “personal shoppers” evade huge import tariffs and intrusive inspections for overseas purchases.

It may be more difficult to resolve the trade dispute with China than many people expect. State-led economics is at the heart of China’s system.

A crafty op-ed in the Financial Times may be a guide to China’s thinking right now.

The slowdown is due to the fall in the price of oil and not trade disputes.

Manufacturing continued to expand in December but optimism about the coming year fell, according to a survey of manufacturers.

China’s economy is slowing down more than expected.

The multinational corporate business model of outsourcing and offshoring Americans’ jobs overseas to cheap labor foreign countries is responsible for General Motors’ recently announced mass layoffs of American workers, a trade analyst says.

China’s Ministry of Commerce promoted progress in trade talks with the United States Sunday and the hope of future meetings.

President Trump’s ten percent tariffs on imported aluminum have brought the domestic aluminum industry and American jobs roaring back in the economy, new research reveals. 

Trump’s critics want to blame tariffs for a slowdown in manufacturing. But the data tell a very different story.

China said it will cut its tariff on American made cars from 40 percent to 15 percent.

Some of President Trump’s wealthiest supporters have big casino operations in China.

Economists are not very worried about a recession next year. But 50 percent think the next recession will start in 2020.

They keep saying tariffs are taxes on American consumers and forcing prices higher. And every month inflation data shows that is not true.

No signs of inflation for November. And no signs that tariffs are raising prices either.