Tag: Trade

Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesman Gao Feng speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing.

China says it wants to meet the US ‘halfway’ on trade deal

Sean Higgins · May 9, 2019 7:21 pm

President Trump (right) meets China's Vice Premier Liu He (left) in the Oval Office of the White House in D.C.

China says problem is Trump demanding trade deal be in writing

Sean Higgins · May 9, 2019 12:09 am

President Donald Trump waves to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2019.

China warns of retaliation if US follows through with Trump tariff hike threat

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 9:10 pm

Trump says China is stalling because it wants to negotiate trade with Biden or ‘weak Democrats’

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 9:04 pm

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to the media at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Pelosi says Congress no closer to vote on Trump USMCA trade deal

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 8:38 pm

Vsitors to the Pittsburgh veterans job fair meet with recruiters at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.

Beltway Confidential

A hesitating but happy economy

Bruce Yandle · May 8, 2019 5:59 pm

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel patrols the Oakland estuary as the container ship Horizon Enterprise is unloaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

Tariffs are bad; trade quotas are no better

alison-acosta-winters · May 8, 2019 5:13 pm

In this July 28, 2015, file photo, a man walks out of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. in Washington.

Senate restores Export-Import Bank to full operation in win for business and Trump over conservatives

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 3:41 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday invoked Ronald Reagan to argue against two Republican immigration bills that could see votes today. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, file)

Why Ronald Reagan supported the Jones Act

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2019 12:10 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 4, 2019.

China backtracked with extensive last-minute edits to trade deal with US

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 11:50 am

In this photo taken Thursday, May 1, 2014, cranes unload imported iron ore from a ship at a port in Rizhao in east China's Shandong province. China's trade rebounded in April from the previous month's surprise contraction but imports were subdued in another sign of the country's economic slowdown. Customs data Thursday, May 8, 2014 showed exports rose 0.9 percent, recovering from March's 6.6 percent decline. Imports rose 0.8 percent, up from the previous month's 11.3 percent decline. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

‘They have to stop’: Small businesses alarmed by new Trump tariff threat

James Langford · May 8, 2019 4:01 am

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He attends the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Sunday, March 3, 2019.

China shows eagerness to deal despite Trump tariff threat, analysts say

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 4:00 am