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U.S. imports from China have declined by $53 billion through the first nine months of the year, Commerce Dept. data show.|

“We should have lower interest rates than Germany, Japan and all others,” Trump tweeted on Thursday morning.

Violent riots in Chile have thrown the “phase one” trade deal between the U.S. and China into doubt.

“To Tim: The Button on the IPhone was FAR better than the Swipe!” Trump wrote on Twitter, in an apparent message to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

“They made headway on specific issues and the two sides are close to finalizing some sections of the agreement,” the U.S.T.R. said.

“We don’t collect tariffs,” Sciutto said, incorrectly, Thursday. “You know that as well. Everybody in the room knows that as well.”

“My hunch is that we could get those December tariffs off if the phase one talks go well,” Larry Kudlow said Monday.

The Democrat Party now represents the nation’s wealthiest citizens, while working-class Americans have flocked to the Republican Party over the last decade, analysis finds.

Trade volumes are expected to barely grow at all this year, bringing economic expansion to the lowest level since the financial crisis

China procures political compliance among American elites through development of financial relationships, explained Robert Spalding.

A confusing morning of mixed signals coming out of China about the trade deal struck with the U.S. last week.

Economist Paul Krugman, the longtime defender of global free trade and a member of the failed “Never Trump” movement, now admits that globalization has failed American workers.

The president spoke about the deal during remarks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House after a meeting with the Vice Premier of China.

The major stock indexes surged higher Friday on signs that the U.S. and China may have reached “partial deal” on trade issues. President Donald Trump said that “good things are happening” in the trade negotiations. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said

A recent study that found permanent tariffs on Chinese imports would create more than a million American jobs has won a prestigious national award.

“We’re going to meet with them tomorrow here,” Trump said on the White House lawn. “And it’s going very, very well.”

The prices of cars, trucks, computers, phones, televisions, and beer have fallen, disproving the tariff-led inflation hysteria.

Early hopes that China might be ready for a trade deal have faded over the past two weeks, administration officials said.

Prices of light trucks, appliances, and computers all fell in September, once again demonstrating the tariffs aren’t taxing consumers.

Far from getting closer, the U.S. and China are moving apart in the run-up to high-level trade talks.

The new tariffs got the greenlight from the World Trade Organization on Wednesday.

The Trump administration is considering delisting Chinese companies from American stock exchanges, according to reports from Bloomberg, Reuters, and CNBC. Bloomberg reported that the administraton is also considering a ban on U.S. pensions from investing in Chinese stocks. Unnamed sources

President Trump said globalist politicians “ignored” for years the “abuses” of China’s trade actions that helped gut American manufacturing and have been “proven completely wrong” in regards to free trade between the United States and China.

Consumer confidence appears to have been rattled in early September by trade tensions, the Conference Board said.

The donor-class Koch network headed by GOP mega-donor Charles Koch is now admitting they failed to turn the American people against President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. 

“Before they come over and display what their current thinking is, it’s sort of hard to say,” Schwarzman said Thursday.

Actor Brad Pitt said in a recent interview that President Donald Trump “represents a much bigger threat” beyond his proposal to impose tariffs on French wine.

House Democrats are proposing to block President Donald Trump’s aid to farmers amidst the country’s tariff fight with China, which could have a devastating impact on America’s farmers.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his trade fight with China, but he admitted he would also use tariffs as leverage to negotiate a deal.

Elizabeth Warren embraced the idea that the U.S. should limit access to our markets and defend American interests in trade deals

Democrats attacked President Donald Trump’s trade policies on Thursday night while offering no specific alternatives.

President Donald Trump downplayed rumors of an “interim deal” with China to make progress in the trade negotiations. “There’s no easy or hard,” Trump said. “There’s a deal or there’s not a deal.”

President Donald Trump said Wednesday evening that he would delay proposed tariffs on China in October, as a positive gesture to Vice Premier Liu He.

The biggest surprise: prices of materials for consumer goods are falling and business margins are improving.

Manufacturing job openings jumped to 522,000 from 515,000 in the prior month, the Department of Labor said Tuesday.

Former Vice President Joe Biden struggled to explain his plan to persuade China to lower its carbon footprint on Wednesday.