Mnuchin described himself as “cautiously optimistic” that a deal to avoid trade barriers could be reached with China, in part because Trump and Chinese President XI Jinping “have a very good relationship.”
The president has asked the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies to pursue plans to use environmental laws to tighten standards on imported cars.
President Donald Trump will urge Latin American countries to accept the United States as their trading “partner of choice” instead of China in Peru next week, according to senior administration officials.
President Donald J. Trump finally put the money where his mouth is and the Section 232 tariffs on imported metals went into effect on March 23, 2018. But the global push-back against them managed to reduce some of their bite.
President Donald Trump warned Wall Street investors that they should expect a tumultuous period of economic activity amidst the ongoing tariffs battle with China.
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“In light of China’s unfair retaliation, I have instructed the USTR to consider whether $100 billion of additional tariffs would be appropriate under section 301 and, if so, to identify the products upon which to impose such tariffs,” Trump said in a statement released by the White House.
Contents: China’s tariff retaliation plan would devastate China’s economy; China on path to repeat Japan’s experience after Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
White House Economic advisor Larry Kudlow reacted to the stock market jitters following China’s decision to levy tariffs on American products in response to President Donald Trump’s tough actions on China.
The Trump administration’s China trade policies are a marked departure from the past. Instead of appeasement, Trump is fighting the new economic Cold War.
The Department for International Trade expects to have at least two bumper trade deals ready to go the day after the Brexit ‘transition period’ ends, according to reports.
President Donald Trump on Thursday acknowledged how instrumental Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) supporters were in his 2016 victory, saying they were “a big part” of the difference between himself and Hillary Clinton.
“China absolutely won’t sit back and allow its legitimate rights and interests to be harmed and will take all necessary measures to protect” itself against U.S. tariffs, a Chinese official said.
“If we keep going the way we’re going, we will be an agricultural colony for China,” said Curtis Ellis, praising President Trump’s tariff crackdown on China’s trade abuses, during a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Britain’s new blue passports are to be produced by a French firm after Brexit, the government announced, after the company landed the £490 million deal.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders emphasized that President Trump is interested in making “good” deals when asked during a Tuesday press briefing about the progress of NAFTA negotiations.
The billionaire GOP mega-donor Koch brothers are continuing to oppose President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday published a list of U.S. products it plans to introduce duties on if the 28-nation bloc is not exempted from President Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs.
The vast majority of Americans say it is more important for the United States to have a strong manufacturing base than to have an exorbitant amount of cheap, foreign products.
A Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday revealed that 70% of Republican voters support President Donald Trump’s tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.
President Trump is expected to unveil a massive “package of tariffs” against China in the coming weeks, multiple sources close to the White House told Politico.
The hysteria over tariffs with conservatives and Republicans is almost amusing. Do we not understand Trump? He always starts out with a big blast, a wide-reaching plan and predictably, everyone overreacts with endless cries of the coming apocalypse. He then pulls back, zeroes in on his targets and negotiates.
The pro-open borders, avid free trader Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has introduced legislation to “nullify” President Trump’s tariffs on imported steel and aluminum designed to increase American manufacturing for U.S. workers.
American workers whose lives were uprooted by multinational free trade deals are thanking President Trump for signing into law tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to protect U.S. jobs.
Michael Pillsbury, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, described the Trump Administration’s implementation of tariffs on aluminum and steel imports as insufficient measures towards curbing China’s goal of displacing U.S. geopolitical global dominance.
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s News HQ,” Representative Dave Brat (R-VA), a former economics professor, argued the US has to “fight back” against the fact that China is “cheating” on trade. Brat said Trump’s first position
The European Commission has taken the extraordinary step of threatening to sue the United Kingdom if President Trump exempts Britain from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium.
The stench of hypocrisy and the reek of duplicity remain alive and well with the EU and its camp followers on trade tariffs, writes Global Britain’s Brian Monteith.
The European Union (EU) is urging the U.S. not to exclude the UK from steel tariffs, demanding President Donald J. Trump treats the UK as part of “a whole body” EU, even as it leaves the bloc.
The vast majority of Americans support President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda on foreign trade, wherein the populist president is in the process of renegotiating multinational trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
As President Trump made history signing into law his tariffs on steel and aluminum to protect American workers and U.S. industries, GOP megadonor Charles Koch called on “corporate leaders” to “reject” the decision.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is thrilled that President Donald Trump is moving forward with tariffs of 25 percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum imports into the United States, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that he opposes a general tariff, which “would actually harm allies, harm American consumers, by the way, harm American workers that use steel in production,” and that no
Gordon Chang, an expert on China and columnist at The Daily Beast, called on the Trump administration to block Broadcom’s hostile takeover attempt of Qualcomm in the interest of national security.
British exports are at their strongest since 2010, according to a report by Heathrow Airport and the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) — making a mockery of claims that post-referendum “uncertainty” would crash the economy.
Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle company, is warning against President Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and ten percent tariff on imported aluminum while laying off American manufacturing workers.
Pro-mass immigration GOP megadonor billionaires the Koch brothers are now committed to working against President Trump’s two leading populist issues: immigration and trade.
John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream, warned in an interview Tuesday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that China is “arming faster than Hitler was arming in the thirties.”
“From Bush 1 to present, our country has lost more than 55,000 factories, 6,000,000 manufacturing jobs and accumulated trade deficits of more than 12 trillion dollars,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Last year we had a trade deficit of almost 800 billion dollars. Bad policies & leadership. Must WIN again!”
As White House economic adviser Gary Cohn resigns from the White House, Breitbart News looks back on six times that the economic globalist attempted to derail President Trump’s “America First” agenda.
