Tag: Trade

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., defends Judge Brett Kavanaugh during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, focusing on allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s.

Lindsey Graham warns Mexico: Stop the caravan or trade deal is at risk

Diana Stancy Correll · October 30, 2018 4:19 am

President Trump speaks to reporters about a shooting.

Beltway Confidential

Trump wants to cut middle-class taxes. The easiest solution? Repeal tariffs

Scott Hodge · October 29, 2018 8:06 pm

U.S. President Trump meets with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto at the G20 Summit, in Hamburg.

Mexico, Canada play hardball on trade deal over steel tariffs

Sean Higgins · October 26, 2018 11:35 pm

President Trump speaks during an event in D.C.

Beltway Confidential

How Trump can stave off an economic crisis amid market chaos

Quin Hillyer · October 26, 2018 7:43 pm

A coils of steel is moved by a crane at an Ontario steel plant. President Trump has exempted Canada and Mexico from 25 percent tariffs on the metal pending renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Trump ‘reviewing’ steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada

Sean Higgins · October 26, 2018 7:13 pm

President Trump speaks at an event.

Beltway Confidential

You can’t win a trade war if you don’t try: The US and China must talk

Erin Dunne · October 26, 2018 7:01 pm

President Trump talks in the Oval Office of the White House in D.C.

Trump is in denial about the effect of his tariffs

Washington Examiner · October 26, 2018 4:03 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Heitkamp blames Trump as soybean exports to China fall to zero

Sean Higgins · October 25, 2018 10:02 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks 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.

Business alarmed as Trump administration refuses exemptions for China tariffs

Sean Higgins · October 25, 2018 9:21 pm

A cargo truck drives amid stacked shipping containers at the Yangshan port in Shanghai, Thursday, March 29, 2018. China's Commerce Ministry called on Washington on Thursday to discard planned tariffs it warned might set off a chain reaction that could disrupt global trade and said Beijing will "fight to the end".

Beltway Confidential

The private sector has a key role to play bridging the gap between Washington and Beijing

Erin Dunne · October 25, 2018 8:11 pm

A worker walks past steel coils at the U.S. Steel Corp. Granite City Works facility in Granite City, Ill., Thursday, July 26, 2018.

Unlikely protectionist group seeks to counter Chamber on trade and tariffs

Sean Higgins · October 25, 2018 4:00 am

Illinois 6th District Rep. Peter Roskam participates in a debate.

Endangered suburban Republican tries to navigate Clinton district, Trump trade policies

David M. Drucker · October 24, 2018 11:07 pm