Tag: Trade

President Trump, center, speaks as he announces a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. The new deal, reached just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.

Congressional resistance to Trump’s trade deal is bipartisan, but also fractured

Sean Higgins · December 14, 2018 5:01 am

Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank, USA, Phil Gramm participates in a panel discussion 'USA in the World 2020: Still Number One?' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday Jan. 28, 2005.

Beltway Confidential

Economy needs, if not an ounce, at least a Gramm of prevention

Quin Hillyer · December 13, 2018 10:12 pm

In this April 26, 2018, photo, a robot entertains visitors at the booth of a Chinese automaker during the China Auto 2018 show in Beijing, China. Under President Xi Jinping, a program known as "Made in China 2025" aims to make China a tech superpower by advancing development of industries that in addition to semiconductors includes artificial intelligence, pharmaceuticals and electric vehicles.

China to revamp industrial policy

Sean Higgins · December 13, 2018 2:03 pm

Republicans will take up a spending bill in the spring to fund the wall, which could cost $14 billion. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump insists Mexico is paying for the border wall

Katelyn Caralle · December 13, 2018 12:56 pm

In this photo taken Nov. 13, 2018, bicycle mechanic Boo Scott, left, explains a bike component to assembler Alan Everitt in the bike repair department in REI Co-op's flagship store in Seattle. For the fourth consecutive year, REI said that on the popular Black Friday shopping day it will close all 153 stores, process no online payments and pay more than 12,000 employees, encouraging them to recreate outdoors with friends and family. The company calls it #OptOutside.

Want to help US businesses suffering from tariffs? Cut the de minimis threshold

Pat Cunnane · December 12, 2018 2:33 pm

In this undated photo released by Huawei, Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is seen in a portrait photo. China on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, demanded Canada release the Huawei Technologies executive who was arrested in a case that adds to technology tensions with Washington and threatens to complicate trade talks.

Huawei CFO granted bail by Canadian court

Katelyn Caralle · December 12, 2018 12:06 am

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer leaves the stage after speaking at the 9th China Business Conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AmCham China are hosting the event. The U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs on $150 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what it argues are Beijing's unfair trade practices and its requirement that U.S. companies turn over technology in exchange for access to its market. China has said it would subject $50 billion of U.S. goods to tariffs if the U.S. taxes its products. A delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Lighthizer and trade adviser Peter Navarro will visit Beijing for negotiations later this week.

Top US, China officials try to ease trade tensions in call covering industrial policy, agriculture

Sean Higgins · December 11, 2018 3:03 pm

FILE - This May 8, 2008 file photo shows the production line at the BMW assembly plant in Greer, S.C. It has been 20 years since BMW announced it would build an automotive plant in South Carolina. Two decades later, the plant churns out 30,000 vehicles a month and remains a touchstone in the stateâs modern history. (AP Photo/The Greenville News, Ken Osburn, File)

US automakers surge on report China will lower vehicle tariffs

Joe Williams · December 11, 2018 2:14 pm

Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden,Â June 2023.

What’s behind Wall Street’s doubts about Trump’s ‘incredible’ trade deal with China

James Langford · December 11, 2018 5:00 am

China has accused the United States of using pressure tactics and blackmail in threatening to impose tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports.

Trump officials see a trade-talk advantage: China is maxed out on tariffs

Sean Higgins · December 11, 2018 5:00 am

Employees look over 2018 Honda Accord vehicles on the customer preparation line at the Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. Marysville Auto Plant in Marysville, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. More than three decades afterÂ Honda Motor Co.Â first built an Accord sedan at its Marysville factory in 1982, humans are still an integral part of the assembly process -- and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Business, labor groups tell administration to pressure Japan on cars

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2018 9:19 pm

President Donald Trump, center, reaches out to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they prepare to sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is replacing the NAFTA trade deal, during a ceremony at a hotel before the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. The USMCA, as Trump refers to it, must still be approved by lawmakers in all three countries.

Chamber of Commerce conditions support for Trump’s USMCA deal on lifting metals tariffs for Mexico and Canada

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2018 8:14 pm