Deputy Calais Mayor Jean-Marc Puissesseau has dismantled scare stories that the UK will have to reroute freight or that there will be massive delays at the French port in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
China appears willing to buy more products and services from the U.S. but the larger issues remain unresolved.
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.
China’s top economic adviser unexpectedly participated in trade meetings involving high-level U.S. trade representatives in Beijing Monday.
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.
The U.S. will send a high-level delegation of trade representatives to China on Monday for negotiations with their Chinese counterparts.
The British government is going to wargame the impact of leaving the European Union on World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules on Monday, chartering dozens of articulated lorries to simulate the impact of traffic near the port of Dover.
Business-first Republican advocates want the President to trade away his “Hire American” policy to get border wall funding, while pro-American advocates say he can win by trading concessions in healthcare, trade, and infrastructure.
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.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping repeatedly referenced challenges, hardships, and potential “complications” facing his country in 2019 during a speech Monday observing the new year, vowing to “create Chinese miracles” in the next 12 months.
President Donald Trump heralded “big” trade progress from a long Saturday call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) announced this week that it will continue operations despite a partial government shutdown.
China is again pushing the idea of progress in trade talks with the United States, this time announcing agreed upon plans for an in-person meeting in January.
“We will be forced to close the Southern Border entirely if the Obstructionist Democrats do not give us the money to finish the Wall & also change the ridiculous immigration laws that our Country is saddled with,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
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.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland has signed a long-term deal with a U.S. company for supplies of liquefied natural gas as part of an effort to reduce its dependence on Russian energy, the two sides announced on Wednesday.
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.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Kingdom has said that the U.S. and UK are “working hard” to build strong post-Brexit relations.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday said US sanctions will have no impact on the policies of the Islamic republic at home or abroad.
Sammy Wilson, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) spokesman on Brexit, has rubbished claims by Chancellor Philip “Remainer Phil” Hammond and others that a “No Deal” exit from the European Union would plunge the United Kingdom into a post-apocalyptic situation.
Pro-Brexit group Labour Leave has demanded a public inquiry into the Brexit negotiations after a customs expert told MPs he suspected HMRC was given a “political instruction” not to discuss alternatives to the contentious “backstop”.
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.
Japan has finalised a long-delayed free trade agreement with the European Union — without having to join the bloc’s Customs Union, submit to its Free Movement immigration regime, or pay it tens of billions of euros.
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.
A sign of progress in the China trade talks.
No sign of the widely predicted Tariffmageddon.
On Saturday night in Buenos Aires, Chinese President Xi Jinping sat across the dinner table from President Trump and rattled off a list of 140 promises on trade, intellectual property, and a host of other matters.
The top U.S. trade negotiator took a hardline on Sunday, saying that if a deal is not reached by March, China tariffs will rise to 25 percent.
The Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Major Ports Group has shot down claims of a six-month “logjam” at Britain’s ports in the event of a “No Deal” Brexit in flames.
Fmr. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called on the West to to keep Chinese telecommunications company Huawei out of 5G networks.
Sabrina Meng is one of the best-known business leaders in China. Her arrest has sparked outrage and demands for her release.
China has finally acknowledged the timeline for trade talks.
“We are either going to have a REAL DEAL with China, or no deal at all – at which point we will be charging major Tariffs against Chinese product being shipped into the United States,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
“President Xi and I want this deal to happen, and it probably will. But if not remember… I am a Tariff Man,” Trump wrote on Twitter.