National Public Radio (NPR) failed on Thursday to coax E.U. Ambassador David O’Sullivan into criticizing President Donald Trump’s trade policies after the president made another winning deal, setting the U.S. and Europe on the path to better trade relations.
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue wrote an op-ed explaining how President Donald Trump’s trade agenda helps American farmers.
U.S. Court of International Trade Judge Gary Katzmann issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday banning the import of any seafood from Mexico that had been caught with gill nets, which are blamed for the near-exctincion of the vaquita porpoise.
President Donald Trump celebrated the Q2 4.1 percent GDP news on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, adding that trade deals coming in will push future GDP numbers higher.
“I don’t think it is a stupid fight to say China should not be able to come in an steal the future of American industry,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a heated exchange.
“This bolsters Trump’s argument that being tough and aggressive–and, yes, using tariffs where required–can get you to the negotiating table,” Kudlow said.
“Mr Trump is the US first president for more than 40 years to bash China on three fronts simultaneously: trade, military and ideology,” writes the head of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping offered a rousing defense of globalism and suggested “the evolution of global governance system will have a profound impact on the development of all countries” during Wednesday’s opening of the BRICS summit in South Africa.
President Trump and EU Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker announced an agreement to work toward and operate in the spirit of a “zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods” trade deal.
Dow Jones reported that the European Union had agreed to import more U.S. soybeans, to work on ways to import more U.S. natural gas, and to lower industrial tariffs.
Tax cuts boosted profits although metals tariffs raised the cost of raw materials.
President Donald Trump urged Americans on Wednesday to be patient with ongoing trade fights and his decision to level tariffs on countries like China.
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that a $12 billion farmer emergency aid plan is in the works on Tuesday to temporarily mitigate the effects of U.S. tariffs and ongoing trade negotiations.
In another tweet, Trump said that tweet that his administration’s trade policies were getting other countries to cut new deals with the U.S.
Finance officials of G20 major world economies convened in Argentina in recent days for talks, including trade discussion that U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin called “very productive.”
The shortfall was mostly due to the weakness in Europe, Middle East, Africa businesses, CEO Marc Bitzer said on Monday.
Bloomberg reports that Toyota may stop importing some models into the U.S. if the American government raises auto tariffs.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida – With just over a month to go until Florida Republicans vote to select their nominee for the governor’s race, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is pulling ahead of Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, according to recent polling data.
“There’s no question that the weakening of the currency creates an unfair advantage for them,” Mnuchin said.
Despite the chatter about trade war and currency war on Wall Street, the U.S. stock market was unshaken.
“Global debt markets are flashing a bullish signal on America’s economic trajectory, leaving Europe and emerging markets in the dust,” Bloomberg reports.
Contents: Trump administration signals that trade war with China will escalate sharply; The growing conflict with China
China has historically not had as open of a market, and that needs to change,” Blackstone president and Chief Operating Officer Jonathan Gray said Wednesday.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Wednesday that European Union President Jean-Claude Juncker will be coming to Washington, D.C. next week with a “free trade offer” for President Donald Trump’s consideration. He offered his remarks during a discussion with CNBC’s Jim Cramer at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York City, NY.
“I believe China wants to make a deal. But–in so far as we know–president Xi, at the moment, does not wish to make a deal,” Kudlow said
“The administration has said it is going for broadly lower tariffs, if that happens, that’s good,” Powell said.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief says the United States has remained a “friend” of the 28-nation bloc and said “a change in the administration does not change the friendship between countries and peoples.” On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump
Elon Musk wants to be a groundbreaker in China. Instead, he may end up being broken by China.
President Donald Trump offered Prime Minister Theresa May some kind words at their joint press conference at Chequers, but hinted he was not convinced she will take Britain out of the EU, and asked her to make sure she wins back the country’s trade powers if she does — and told the press she may yet take his “brutal” advice on how to deal with Brussels.
Although wealthier consumers appear to be deeply concerned over tariffs, the overall expectations index improved in early July, rising to 86.4 from 86.3, according to the survey.
Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chief executive, said that trade war talk was more about “psyche” than “economics.”
“U.S. families’ high dependency on Chinese products is the Achilles’ heel of U.S. trade policy,” the Global Times wrote in a editorial Wednesday.
President Donald Trump warned Thursday of possible increases in tariffs on European Union auto imports to the United States if the EU fails to negotiate “in good faith” at talks starting July 25.
President Donald J. Trump thanked a reporter for asking French President Emmanuel Macron following a Trump-Macron meeting at the NATO summit about Russian influence on Germany through a gas pipeline.
BMW spokesman Ken Sparks told the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg the company’s new deal with China won’t affect Spartanburg production.
“Unfortunately, China has not changed its behavior – behavior that puts the future of the U.S. economy at risk,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement announcing the new tariffs.
President Donald Trump took another swipe at NATO countries and European Union trade barriers just before flying out from the White House Tuesday, indicating they will “work something out” at the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, this week.
President Donald Trump pressed Germany to increase spending on NATO and jabbed the European Union trade barriers on the United States on Monday ahead of this week’s NATO summit in Brussels.
China would like to turn America’s heartland against President Trump and has aimed its tariffs to maximize damage to American farmers and Midwestern industrial workers.
Ed Schultz stood out from his peers on the left in one crucial way: he understood why Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
