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“[Mexicans] realize they have more to lose than the United States” in the event of a collapse of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), said Curtis Ellis, Senior Policy Advisor for America First Policies.

The battle to decide the shape of global trade is heating up as Canada files a wide-ranging complaint against Trump’s trade sanctions.

A leaked European Union (EU) dossier has revealed the bloc’s growing concern about the economic damage Brexit will do to individual regions.

President Donald Trump was at the top of his game on Monday when he addressed the 99th Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

Two American solar manufacturing companies allege that they were practically driven out of business by Chinese solar manufacturers who unfairly dumped their products in the U.S. market at lower prices.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, charged with implementing President Donald Trump’s economic nationalist trade agenda, has come under fire from some Republican senators, according to a Tuesday report from The Hill.

President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda has spurred a trend of American companies filing a record number of trade lawsuits against foreign competitors in 2017. According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, “a wave” of trade lawsuits by American companies against

“The United States will no longer turn a blind eye to violations, cheating, or economic aggression,” declared the Trump administration.

The headline in the November 19 Wall Street Journal put the matter plainly: There are “Two Americas.” One America that gains from globalization, and another much larger America that loses from globalization. And as we now know, this cleaving of the nation is not just a matter of economics, it’s also a matter of life and death.

Chinese state media are celebrating Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for being a “snappy dresser” and challenging U.S. President Donald Trump as Trudeau concludes a two-day trip to the country that reports back home have evaluated as lackluster given that anticipated trade talks were “delayed by further haggling.”

In addition to launching an inquiry into Chinese aluminum exports, the Commerce Dept. determined China is subsidizing tool chest exports.

Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Roberto Azevedo has poured cold water on Remainer scaremongering about the consequences of Britain leaving the European Union without a trade agreement, remarking it wouldn’t be “the end of the world”.

China has a plan for your future, and it’s called One Belt One Road.

Very few economists think the economic consequences of leaving NAFTA would involve the U.S. entering a recession.

President Donald Trump teased an upcoming announcement prepared after his return to the White House on Tuesday night from his 12-day trip to Asia.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) blasted President Trump for “treating China with kid gloves” and refusing to blame Beijing’s trade abuses for the massive trade deficit between the United States and China.

United States Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has said President Trump is “very supportive” of a deal with Brexit Britain, while taking aim at the EU’s “extreme protectionism”.

President Donald Trump met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan on Sunday, building on their friendship over dinner and golf.

US Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer discussed US trade policy and China’s economic goals on Friday’s “Ingraham Angle” on the Fox News Channel. Partial Transcript as Follows: INGRAHAM: “China has something called their 2025 project. It’s their focus to dominate every

“They’ve beat us pretty badly in terms of trade. That doesn’t make them an enemy. … They probably in many ways have been smarter in terms of business and trade,” Kelly said in an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

During an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s edition of the Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” President Trump stated that in order to turn NAFTA into a fair deal, it has to be terminated. Trump said, “I tell my people, I

The Australian government has signalled that it can conclude a trade deal with the United Kingdom after Brexit in a matter of months.

The Hungarian government is pressing Brussels bureaucrats to adopt a more constructive and conciliatory stance in the Brexit negotiations, warning that a comprehensive trade agreement with Britain is “vital” for the European Union.

China needs to do more to open its markets to American companies, as the United States has with Chinese companies, two American experts said.

“American leaders must find their voices in championing free markets, free people and free trade,” Warsh wrote.

Even as the United Kingdom scours the planet for friends and trading partners ahead of the country departing the European Union power bloc, British Prime Minister Theresa May is threatening key ally the United States with a “trade war”.

President Donald Trump will likely find it harder to put in place trade policies designed to protect American jobs and technology thanks to chief of staff John Kelly’s latest maneuver.

China pushed back this week against U.S. criticism of its mercantilism policies and attempts to force U.S. companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms

In a strange twist of fate, one of the key figures who helped bring about a transfer of jobs out of Alabama via a NAFTA-style free trade agreement with Central American countries is now campaigning for the Senate seat formerly occupied by Jeff Sessions. Even stranger still, his campaign ads promise that he will “Kill Unfair Trade Deals.” His name is Luther Strange.

A quick bilateral trade deal between Canada and the United Kingdom will be ‘better’ than EU/Canada arrangements, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said.

Chinese mercantilism is a threat to trade everywhere, U.S. Trade Representative Robert LIghthizer said on Monday.

TEL AVIV – Amid reports that Iran is assisting North Korea with its nuclear program, Deputy Minister for Diplomacy Michael Oren asked the international community at what point it would intervene.

TEL AVIV – Iran will be closely observing the world’s reaction to North Korea’s latest nuclear test and will dictate how the Islamic Republic will move forward with its own nuclear program, former Israeli defense minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon said.

When President Trump said on Sunday that America would consider stopping all trading with countries doing business with North Korea, critics responded by saying this would mean economic ruin for the United States.

President Donald Trump has alarmed the Chinese government again with a threat to cut economic ties to nations that do business with North Korea.

“The U.S. is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea,” Trump said.