During Friday’s Democratic Weekly Address, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) argued US trade and tax policy have encouraged companies to shut down factories in the US and move production overseas. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, I’m Sherrod Brown. First, I want to
As Prime Minister Theresa May arrives in Tokyo for talks with her Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, carmaker Aston Martin has announced a trade and investment deal with the country worth half a billion pounds.
Revist any agreement that results in large, serial trade deficits.
China has sharpened its rhetoric of the Trump administration’s trade probe.
Donald Trump sent a warning to Mexico Tuesday night about the NAFTA renegotiations.
In remarks last week, China’s government on Thursday warned, “There is no winner in a trade war.” The threat came after President Trump’s former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, indicated that the administration was going take a tougher stance toward Beijing’s rapacious trade practices.
The Trump administration formally launched an investigation into trade practices that China allegedly uses to steal the intellectual property of U.S. companies.
The Trump administration sent a clear message to Canada and Mexico on Wednesday: we are not kidding around about fundamentally transforming the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA).
According to a government report, China’s theft of U.S. intellectual property costs the U.S. between $150 billion and $240 billion per year.
President Donald Trump signed a memorandum directing his Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer to investigate China for the theft of intellectual property.
China forces U.S. companies to adopt a variety of arrangements designed to transfer technology to Chinese firms
The propaganda press is already trying to have a field day with the Trump telephone transcripts that were just released, showcasing his conversations with the President of Mexico and Prime Minister of Australia. They think the calls make him look
When Donald Trump triumphed in his bid for the White House last fall after a campaign that often deployed attacks on President Barack Obama’s trade policies, many leading Democrats began questioning how they had lost control of an issue that once propelled them to victory.
President Donald Trump has signalled his approval of and involvement in trade talks between the United States and the United Kingdom, as the British trade delegation began their second day of a visit to Washington DC.
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Boris Johnson, is anticipating “a fantastic, all-singing and all-dancing, UK-Japan free trade agreement” following talks in Tokyo. Speaking after a meeting with Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida, the former Mayor of London said
International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox has said that the “very big, very powerful” trade deal which U.S. President Donald Trump wants to negotiate with Brexit Britain will be only one of many around the world, as the country takes its place as “the global champion for free trade”.
The European Union is powerless to stop Britain starting to strike up new relationships around the world, top European law academics have said days before Britain’s trade talks with the United States are due to begin. Britain’s Secretary of State
TOKYO (AP) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Friday his country stands “shoulder to shoulder” with Japan in efforts to put an end to North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests. “We all need to increase the pressure on Pyongyang
A central part of President Donald Trump’s winning campaign platform last year was that American interests and – this is key – Americans’ interests should be the foundation of U.S. policymaking. The America First message resonated with American voters who had felt during previous administrations that America’s interests were a mere afterthought in the policy sphere. Trump voiced the right message, at the right time, and he won because of it.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is in Japan for talks on increasing security co-operation and trade after Brexit.
President Donald Trump reasserted his committment to free and fair trade policies, vowing to stop “stupid trade” polices and restore “reciprocity” in trade deals around the world.
Despite an encounter with the president that the New York Times called “ebullient,” the paper still reported that President Trump was engaging in mean-spirited policies goaded by the “nationalist” ideology of adviser Steve Bannon to appease his populist supporters.
Since President Donald Trump took the oath of office in January, he has taken a series of actions and used diplomatic channels to put in place many of the China policies he spoke about on the campaign trail, including confronting the nation on trade, North Korea, the South China Sea, and human rights.
Brexit has received another boost from Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who said Britain will have “big horizons and big opportunities” outside the EU and announced his desire for a quick trade deal.
The Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom slapped down premature celebrations of a Japan/EU trade deal, as Hungary admits it is the EU which stands to lose if it does not make a deal with Britain.
President Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit on Saturday in Hamburg, where reports reveal the two leaders spoke about trade and North Korea.
U.S. political heavyweight Henry Kissinger believes Brexit could strengthen the Anglo-American partnership and enhance Britain’s role as a “security leader” in the West.
President Donald Trump ribbed the media on Wednesday night after two special election congressional victories in South Carolina and Georgia.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has said he “can’t even imagine” trying to negotiate a trade pact with Jeremy Corbyn, who leads Britain’s opposition Labour Party, after Brexit.
Liam Fox, secretary of state for international trade, is in Washington D.C. to lay the groundwork for an Anglo-American trade pact after Brexit.
Former President Bill Clinton’s top pollster acknowledged that Democrats have been losing working-class voters of all races and backgrounds—not just solely white working-class voters—because the party’s elites support open borders, are soft on illegal immigration, and favor trade deals that screw American workers.
Germany may be the worst actor on the international trade stage. Even worse than China.
President Donald Trump met with European Union leaders in Brussels to discuss trade, calling Germany “very bad” on the issue.
The former Treasury Secretary is worried that exports will drive up prices for U.S. consumers.
China and the United States have agreed to many initial cooperative economic actions as part of a 100-day plan that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping settled on during their Florida Summit, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross explained on Thursday.
Trump is sending a delegation to a forum on China’s ambitious cross-Eurasia investment and infrastructure scheme.
Better trade deals are at the core of Trump’s plan to fix the American economy.
Beijing (AFP) – Laden with whisky and baby milk, the first freight train linking China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday after a 12,000-kilometre (7,500-mile) trip, becoming the world’s second-longest rail route.
President Donald Trump’s 100-day accomplishments on trade are huge and fundamental — yet also incomplete and short of his campaign promises.
WASHINGTON, D.C.–On Thursday President Donald Trump signed a memorandum highlighting the importance of a new Department of Commerce investigation into aluminum imports to the U.S. and the threat to national security in light of global overcapacity and increasing U.S. military demand for high quality aluminum.
