Tag: Trade

President Trump speaks to members of the media before boarding Marine One at the White House on Aug. 17, 2018.

Trump downplays prospects for this week’s trade talks with China

Sean Higgins · August 20, 2018 9:28 pm

An employee arranges cosmetics at an Estee Lauder store in Shanghai. The U.S. company hopes to avoid tariffs that might curb sales.

Beauty benefits all nations, says Estee Lauder CEO protesting cosmetics tariffs

James Langford · August 20, 2018 8:54 pm

Deere & Company says equipment demand from U.S. farmers is steady despite their concerns about overseas sales lost amid President Trump's global trade war.

Deere finds steady demand from US farmers despite tariff woes

James Langford · August 17, 2018 3:25 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2013 file photo, a farmer harvests a field of soybeans near Sioux Falls, S.D. The latest report from the Agriculture Department estimates South Dakota's soybean crop up 7 percent from 2013 and North Dakota's soybean crop up 37 percent.

In North Dakota, farmers sweat Trump’s trade war with China

David M. Drucker · August 17, 2018 4:00 am

An American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Beltway Confidential

New talks with China are good, but don’t hold your breath for an agreement

Erin Dunne · August 16, 2018 6:55 pm

Walmart

Walmart chief works to curb Trump tariffs’ impact amid rising costs

James Langford · August 16, 2018 4:53 pm

President Donald Trump's top economist, Larry Kudlow, talks about the economy, trade, and U.S. efforts to work with China on containing the spread of the coronavirus infection, during a tv news interview at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020.

Kudlow: China’s economy ‘looks terrible’

Gabby Morrongiello · August 16, 2018 4:52 pm

FILE- In this June 5, 2018, file photo, Erik Cordova inspects a steel pipe at the Borusan Mannesmann Pipe manufacturing facility in Baytown, Texas. The U.S. has imposed tariffs of up to 25 percent on thousands of goods including raw metals and finished products from China, Mexico, Canada, India and the European nations, and those countries have retaliated with tariffs of their own on U.S. products ranging from agricultural products to boats. The Institute for Supply Management, said some of its members have said orders from China had fallen, that steel had become more expensive and that companies have had to take on extra inventory, an added cost, in hope of avoiding pricier raw materials.

Majority of manufacturers say tariffs have boosted their costs and will mean higher prices

Diana Stancy Correll · August 16, 2018 2:12 pm

Senior White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 6, 2018, on the upcoming G7 summit.

Larry Kudlow signals that US is nearing trade deal with Mexico

Diana Stancy Correll · August 16, 2018 1:27 pm

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Kevin Corsaro walks past a truck inspection station at the U.S. border in Buffalo, N.Y., Tuesday, June 6, 2006. U.S. authorities tightened their checks of traffic from Canada as debate over the long and hard-to-police border intensified following the weekend arrests of 17 Muslim Canadians in a suspected Ontario terror plot.

New NAFTA must stop Canada’s intellectual property abuses

Phil Kerpen · August 16, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks as he meets with state leaders about prison reform, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.

The reality and the mandate underpinning Trump’s overheated trade rhetoric

Scott Paul · August 16, 2018 4:00 am

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator Bob Corker, R-TN, looks on while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies before the Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, May 24, 2018, just after President Donald Trump canceled the June 12 summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

Senate Republican plans another move to rein in Trump tariffs

Susan Ferrechio · August 15, 2018 10:51 pm