A Chinese company may take over the current owner of the biggest U.S. container port in Long Beach, despite President Donald Trump’s threat to slap a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion worth of China’s tech exports.
The foreign secretary has renewed his attack on the Prime Minister’s increasingly “soft” Brexit plan, claiming it will leave the UK unable to take back control of trade and strike deals.
Leading New Zealanders have said the country is willing to forgive Britain for its “betrayal” of the Commonwealth in the 1970s, when Prime Minister Edward ‘Ted’ Heath severed many of the country’s commercial ties to enter the EEC, as the EU was known at the time.
“I don’t blame the foreign countries. They’re doing what is best for them. The stupidity is that we’ve let ourselves get into this box of extremely low [tariff] rates. We gave it away unilaterally,” Ross said.
President Donald Trump hinted at the need for a “different structure” for a bilateral trade deal with China just one day after the Commerce Department’s Tuesday determination that China has been using Vietnam to circumvent anti-steel dumping measures.
Speaking on a European tour, Steve Bannon has expressed his confidence that the United Kingdom and the United States will conclude a successful trade deal, in remarks that come just days after revelations that he is once again advising U.S. President Donald Trump.
Washington-Wall St. Swamp creatures in the West Wing are selling out working America.
Massive increases in U.S. steel imports from Vietnam that coincided with led to a Commerce Department investigation and announcement on Tuesday that China is using Vietnam to circumvent anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders.
President Donald Trump sat with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House on Tuesday as he told the press he was not happy with how trade talks with China have gone.
The United States will not lift tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump famously said, “Trade wars are good, and easy to win.” The early results of the last few weeks of negotiations with China suggest that may have been overly optimistic.
The Trump administration has agreed with China on a broad outline of a plan to save Chinese telecom giant ZTE.
“We cannot allow the theft of IP, we cannot allow the forced technology transfers. That’s America’s golden jewels, that’s America’s bread and butter,” Larry Kudlow said Monday in an interview.
The Treasury secretary’s remarks come a day after he told Fox News that the U.S. was “putting the trade war on hold” and that both Beijing and the U.S. were temporarily suspending plans to implement tariffs.
Steven Mnuchin’s critics say he’s “Cohn 2.0” and blame him for leaks this week attempting to paint China hawk Peter Navarro in an unflattering light.
“China has been very spoiled … because they always got 100 percent of what they wanted,” Trump said during a meeting with reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Larry Kudlow has not been at the center of the internal White House battle over China and trade. But he was almost shut out of talks with Chinese officials set to kick-off Thursday because of it.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will continue to lead Trump administration officials holding trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in Washington, DC, on Thursday and Friday with a focus on “rebalancing” the U.S.-China bilateral economic relationship.
President Trump prompted confusion when he tweeted Sunday about saving a Chinese telecommunications company, ZTE, and Chinese jobs. Here are the top five things you need to know about the ZTE dispute.
Peter Navarro is among the senior administration officials participating in this week’s round of trade talks with Chinese officials, according to an administration official.
Brexit secretary David Davis has thrown the Prime Minister’s favoured ‘customs partnership’ into doubt, claiming it could, in fact, be illegal according to international law, as he backs a clean Brexit instead.
President Donald Trump defended his decision to provide a lifeline to ZTE, denying that he had ‘folded’ to Chinese demands that the administration pull back U.S. penalties.
Donald Trump defended his decision to intervene against U.S. sanctions on Chinese communications technology company ZTE with a tweet explaining that the Chinese company is a big customer of U.S. tech manufacturing companies.
The Chinese demanded the Trump administration make concessions on crippling sanctions on ZTE as a prerequisite for broader trade talks. The president decided to soften the sanctions.
Gary Cohn says that he is, indeed, a globalist and that his biggest regret about his time in the White House was not being able to make the personal tax cuts permanent.
China’s top economic adviser will travel to Washington, DC, to continue trade talks next week with top Trump administration officials following the U.S. trade delegation’s trip to China last week.
“What I heard from the first day, and again they’ve been there for a full day of negotiations, has been fairly positive,” White House economic adviser Mark Calabria said.
“If you don’t take some risks and you don’t show you are willing to absorb a little bit of pain, how on earth are you going to get things changed?” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said.
Top Trump administration economic officials are headed to China in the second half of this week to discuss trade contentions between the two nations.
The report by the New York Times reveals the GOP establishment’s efforts to restrain Trump from focusing on his populist immigration and trade agenda—where he advocates for less foreign competition against America’s workers.
President Donald Trump has blasted the European Union as an organisation “formed to take advantage of the United States”, and warned the U.S. is “not doing business” with the bloc if does not change its ways
A group of Republican senators who recently traveled to China are sounding the alarm on what they see as a serious threat to America: unfair Chinese trade practices.
The administration has explored the possibility of using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose limits on investments from China in sensitive technology.
“While Japan and South Korea would like us to go back into TPP, I don’t like the deal for the United States,” he wrote on Twitter. “Too many contingencies and no way to get out if it doesn’t work.”
In a survey of 135 Chinese exporters, 65 percent said they have “worries” about a trade war. But only 26 percent expect a “full-blown” trade war.
European nations are recruiting hundreds of customs officers to conduct border checks, as suspicions grow the UK could break free of the bloc, in less than a year, without a trade deal.
During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump discussed trade policy and vowed that the US won’t “tolerate unfair and non-reciprocal trading practices” and that the administration “will use all available authorities to protect our great farmers.” Transcript as Follows As a
President Donald Trump clarified his desire to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after telling members of Congress from agricultural states that he would do it.
Senator Ben Sasse said that President Donald Trump was interested in rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership to put more pressure on China by opening up more Asian markets to agricultural exports from the United States.
President Donald Trump explained his frustration on the trade disparity between the United States and China by highlighting the unfair tariffs on automobile sales.