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After several hours of confusion and conflicting reports, Larry Kudlow made it clear Monday that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lightizer will run the next stage of China talks.

“Relations with China have taken a BIG leap forward!” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Very good things will happen.”

China hawks are wary that the U.S. may once again be falling for the trick of never-ending negotiations that allow China to continue to build itself up at the expense of American interests.

On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said President Donald Trump’s trade policies are making him “concerned.” Blunt said, “People like me who’ve really been concerned about the president’s stated trade policy can take some

Theresa May’s “worst deal in history” with the European Union will be voted against by “at least a third and possibly up to half” of the 21 envoys she has appointed to support new trade deals after Brexit.

China is hoping for a trade truce but many doubt it can offer enough to convince Donald Trump to back off on his tariff threats.

President Donald Trump kept hope alive of a U.S.-China trade deal Friday at the G20 summit, where trade officials are set for a major meeting.

China hoped its retaliatory tariffs would devastate Maine’s lobstermen. Instead, demand for lobsters has remained strong, boosted by purchases from Canada.

One of the administration’s China hawks is sounding positive about the meeting between Trump and Xi that is scheduled for Saturday night.

Presidents of the U.S. and Mexico and the prime minister of Canada officially signed the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal at the G20 in Argentina on Friday.

President Donald Trump left for the G20 summit Thursday and meetings including President Xi Jinping of China as he debated whether or not to do a trade deal with China or keep tariffs.

In the past, Trump has criticized U.S. leaders for fallen for Beijing’s trap of endless talks.

The Trump administration is bringing its biggest China hawk to meet with Xi Jinping.

Trump does not want to shield U.S. companies from competition. He wants global companies to compete with each other while employing U.S. workers.

It never made sense to make cars in China for the U.S. market. Now would be a great time to move production back to the United States.

Larry Kudlow, National Economic Council director, issued tempered optimism on Tuesday as President Trump heads into a G20 Argentina meeting with China to negotiate trade.

Just four days before President Donald Trump is set to attend an economic summit with China’s leader.

President Donald Trump blasted “FAKE NEWS” of tension with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin Friday, countering it with praise.

A report from the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) office released this week found that China has failed to fundamentally alter its market-distorting trade practices.

The latest report shows that China has continued its refusal to abandon unfair and irrational trade practices.

Although overall durable goods orders were weak, the products covered by the Trump administration’s new China tariffs did far better.

While plenty of businesses have complained about tariffs and threatened to raise prices on consumers, Apple’s iPhone travails provide a cautionary lesson.

The risk that the Trump administration could be talked into a “trade truce” with China is fading.

Trump is being pushed to agree to a trade truce when he meets with Xi Jinping at the end of November.

Prices of goods imported from China actually fell after new tariffs kicked-in.

“We hear a lot from business about higher costs, loss of markets. We see a rising chorus of concern,” Powell said. “It hasn’t shown up yet in the data.”

After a rebuke by Larry Kudlow, China hawk Peter Navarro has been reined in ahead of President Trump’s meeting with China’s Xi Jinping in Argentina this month.

Bass lauded Trump’s trade policy towards China and said the world’s 2nd-largest economy requires a “reset” to avoid further slowing growth. 

The latest data from the Labor Department shows that the prices of many things subject to Trump’s tariffs are actually falling.

A contributor for the Washington Post admits that free trade was the “biggest 2018 midterm loser” in the elections across the country this month.

Prices on home appliances, electronics, cars, trucks, soaps, and even toilet paper fell in October.

China’s leaders thought U.S. farmers would be a weak spot in the trade wars. They were wrong.

American farmers have been hit by China’s retaliatory tariffs on U.S. soybeans. Nonetheless, farmers are sticking by the president and his Make American Great Again agenda.

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping warned attendees at the nation’s First China International Import Expo on Monday that economic globalization was “an overarching trend, something that is independent of people’s will” and that history would leave behind those sticking to policies benefitting their countries.

The United States’ trade deficit with China has eliminated jobs for Americans in all 50 states and every congressional district, new research reveals.

The trade chill between President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping may be thawing as Trump talked to, and scheduled meetings with, Xi for this month’s G20 meetings in Argentina.