Tag: Trade

Overwhelming majority of Republicans support Trump’s emergency aid for farmers: Poll

Naomi Lim · July 29, 2018 6:12 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, speaks during a committee hearing.

GOP quietly pushing back against White House trade policies

Sean Higgins · July 29, 2018 2:00 pm

President Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

On trade policy, Trump is turning GOP orthodoxy on its head

Associated Press · July 28, 2018 8:24 pm

Members of the major emerging national economies group BRICS, with from left, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China's President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and Brazil's President Michel Temer, as they pose together for a group photo at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, July 26, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

No, the BRICS won’t rule the world

Tom Rogan · July 27, 2018 8:56 pm

Vice President Mike Pence looks on as President Trump delivers remarks about the economy on the South Lawn of the White House.

Trump touts ‘historic’ economic turnaround as GDP growth hits 4.1 percent

Gabby Morrongiello · July 27, 2018 2:02 pm

Pedestrians pass an H&M storefront window advertising discounts up to 75 percent in New York on Jan. 14, 2014.

Economy grew at 4.1 rate in second quarter, best in nearly four years

Joseph Lawler · July 27, 2018 12:30 pm

Reagan and Trump Had Different Definitions of ‘Free and Fair Trade’

Chris Deaton · July 27, 2018 9:05 am

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Washington.

Trump exhorts his voters to stay the course on trade wars

W. James Antle III · July 27, 2018 4:00 am

President Trump speaks at an event on Wednesday in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington.

Trump touts trade progress, says US no longer ‘big dumb piggy bank’ for other countries

Gabby Morrongiello · July 26, 2018 9:45 pm

President Trump, Soy Salesman

TWS Podcast · July 26, 2018 7:37 pm

President Donald Trump and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker walk to the Oval Office after speaking about trade in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Short on details, Trump’s EU trade talks are more complex than victory tweets

Erin Dunne · July 26, 2018 5:41 pm

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.

China a ‘longer-term problem,’ USTR Robert Lighthizer says

Sean Higgins · July 26, 2018 5:06 pm