More Bark than Bite in Trump’s Canadian Lumber Tariff
Lumber prices fell and Canadian lumber stocks rose after the tariff was announced.
Lumber prices fell and Canadian lumber stocks rose after the tariff was announced.
President Donald Trump discussed his new plans on trade with conservative media at the White House, assuring them his goal of making American trade fair again.
President Donald Trump met with a group of conservative media reporters, columnists, and radio hosts to discuss his first 100 days as president, speaking about trade issues, foreign policy, and infrastructure spending.
‘Buy American’ has been the law for generations. Finally we have a president willing to enforce the law and protect American workers.
Nearly 75 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s infrastructure improvement plans, with just around 10 percent disapproving. More than 60 percent of the public endorse plans to cut individual taxes, with just over 20 percent opposing. Renegotiating trade deals is favored by 58 percent of the public, and opposed by just over 25 percent.
A recently-announced purchase of an American financial services corporation by a Chinese owned company may weaken President Trump’s efforts to make America great again and could set back Trump’s trade reform efforts.
A White House official told Breitbart News that it is likely any executive order to emerge prior to the investigation into trade deficits is completed would be narrowly tailored to commodities and metals such as steel and aluminum and wouldn’t include broader manufactured goods such as appliances.
President Donald Trump has picked an economic advisor who believes in growing the nation’s economy by importing workers and consumers, and by expanding free-trade outsourcing, despite Trump’s “buy American, hire American” campaign promises.
The orders direct the government to launch a large-scale study of the massive and persistent U.S. trade deficit and instruct regulators to strictly enforce U.S. anti-dumping policies aimed at preventing foreign manufacturers from undercutting U.S. companies with unfairly low prices. They mark the latest step in the administration’s efforts to bolster U.S. manufacturing and prevent trading partners from taking advantage of the U.S.’s free trade stance.
PARIS (AFP) – French President Francois Hollande said Thursday that Britain must agree on the conditions of its exit from the EU before the bloc’s members discuss other issues such as a trade deal. “First we must begin discussions on the modalities
SYDNEY (AFP) – As Britain’s divorce from the European Union begins Wednesday, Australia’s meat industry is licking its lips at the prospect of a boost in exports as London scrambles to sign free-trade deals across the globe.
Key elements of his economic program—tax, regulatory and trade reform—are delayed by the considerable distraction of replacing ObamaCare.
Professional economists continue to march in lock-step against the trade and immigration policies of the Trump administration’s economic nationalism.
Within the first year after the federal government lifted its ban on exporting American oil, Texas producers are seeing spikes in demand on the international market.
One of the chief negotiators and public advocates for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been named as President Trump’s new special assistant on international trade, investment, and development for the National Economic Council. Andrew Quinn is a former deputy chief negotiator of the TPP who was named to the National Economic Council on Monday by NEC Director Gary Cohn.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that what he heard from President Trump’s speech before Congress was, “This man has the ability to correct the unfair trade deals that we have. I truly believe
Monday after speaking the nation’s governors at the White House, President Donald Trump offered a preview of his upcoming address to Congress set for Tuesday night. One of those topics included trade, which Trump said he would be pushing for
Cairo (AFP) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday finalised a $150 million loan guarantee agreement tied to crucial IMF financing for Egypt. In Johnson’s first visit as foreign secretary to Egypt, he
President Donald Trump previewed his plans to adjust trade with Canada during his press conference with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called for “free and fair” trade deals in Asia, echoing Donald Trump’s promise to America when he campaigned against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has arrived in Washington for a long day of talks with his American counterpart President Donald Trump, which the pair will follow with a casual visit to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Thursday after a meeting at the White House, President Donald Trump laid out his vision for restructuring the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Commerce Secretary desgnee Wilbur Ross and adviser Carl Icahn. Trump suggested it was time to
What should British Prime Minister Theresa May talk about when she becomes the first world leader to meet President Trump?
The European Union’s (EU) trade boss has signalled the UK could go the back of a “queue” of 18 nations as it tries to negotiate a trade deal with the bloc after Brexit.
Donald Trump expects to be in a position to offer the United Kingdom a free trade deal within the ‘first six months or the first year’ of his administration, says Anthony Scaramucci, the noted entrepreneur and host of the Wall Street Week programme who will serve as the incoming president’s Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs.
The number of companies announcing investment — and in many cases a return to investment — in the U.S.A. with a corresponding rush to create jobs for Americans has continued to grow even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
China’s President Xi Jinping will promote “inclusive globalization” at this month’s World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos and will warn that populist approaches can lead to “war and poverty”, Chinese officials said on Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY (AP)—Ford Motor Company’s cancellation of plans to build a $1.6 billion auto manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi has sounded alarms throughout Mexico.
President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention on Tuesday to nominate President Reagan’s former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, as his U.S. Trade Representative.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s incoming administration is girding for battle with corporatists, globalists, and special business interests over his core policy objective of bringing U.S. manufacturing jobs that have been shipped overseas back to the United States, several senior advisers to Trump tell Breitbart News.
China is reacting angrily following news that President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Peter Navarro, author of the book and film Death by China, to head the new White House National Trade Council.
President-elect Donald Trump is meeting on Tuesday with Jovita Carranza, the founder and CEO of the JCR Group and former deputy administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration, as he focuses on who will be his administration’s trade representative.
Robert Lighthizer, a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, previously defended Trump’s rhetoric on trade. He’ll meet the president-elect in Florida.
Donald Trump isn’t even president yet and he’s already winning for American workers.
The American business press is filled with doomsday scenarios about the trade war that the President-elect is supposedly about to unleash on the world.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Latin America next week — Ecuador, Peru, and Chile — while Chinese diplomats have scheduled a December meeting with Venezuelan counterparts.
During MSNBC’s Election Day coverage, former Clinton Campaign Manager James Carville stated, “Donald Trump now has the authority of an election behind him.” Carville said, “Donald Trump now has the authority of an election behind him. It’s the biggest thing
With less than a week left before Election Day, Donald Trump has his sights on Pennsylvania, a state which has traditionally been a Democratic stronghold, but has been ravaged by Hillary Clinton’s globalist trade policies.
“We’re living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world,” Donald Trump told thousands of Michigan voters on Monday.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told a raucous crowd of supporters in Armory Ballroom that the FBI had re-opened its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server.