Tag: Trade

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.

Business groups applaud ‘de-escalation’ in US-China trade tensions

Sean Higgins · December 2, 2018 7:10 pm

President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, Tuesday, June 12, 2018, in Singapore.

Trump expects next meeting with Kim Jong Un in January or February, has talked about three sites

Daniel Chaitin · December 2, 2018 6:44 am

China said Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures after the US imposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of its exports, raising the prospect of a full-blown trade war.

Trump and Xi agree to temporary trade war cease-fire at dinner summit

Sean Higgins · December 2, 2018 2:06 am

President Trump, front center, stands with other world leaders as they pose for a group picture at the start of the G20 Leader's Summit inside the Costa Salguero Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday.

At G-20, possible ‘breakthrough’ seen after all-night talks

Associated Press · December 1, 2018 4:01 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Rubio says USMCA would force US to rely on Mexican winter vegetables, ‘unacceptable’

Sean Higgins · November 30, 2018 8:36 pm

President Trump looks over at Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's document as they and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement during a ceremony before the start of the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.

Trudeau needles Trump at trade deal signing by spurning USMCA name

Sean Higgins · November 30, 2018 4:42 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.

Trump signs USMCA trade deal, which if approved by Congress would update NAFTA

Robert Donachie · November 30, 2018 3:12 pm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Chuck Schumer: New trade deal ‘too weak’ on environment, labor, and dairy protections

Susan Ferrechio · November 30, 2018 2:35 pm

President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Neto, left, participate in the USMCA signing ceremony, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Trump signs NAFTA replacement deal with Mexico, Canada

Pete Kasperowicz · November 30, 2018 1:03 pm

Mexican President Enrique Pena Neto, right, awards White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner with The Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest Mexican order awarded to foreigners, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Jared Kushner receives Mexico’s highest honor awarded to non-Mexicans

Katelyn Caralle · November 30, 2018 12:56 pm

President Trump, right, walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the people in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.

Trump should stop lying about tariffs

Philip Klein · November 29, 2018 10:12 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren

Warren says she opposes Trump’s USMCA deal

Sean Higgins · November 29, 2018 9:26 pm