Tag: Trade

In this photo taken on Aug. 5, 2010, a container are being load into a cargo ship at the Tianjin port in China. China's exports grew strongly in July but import growth fell as its rapid economic expansion cooled, possibly hurting global demand. Exports rose 38.1 percent over a year ago to $145.5 billion while imports gained 22.7 percent to $116.8 billion, the customs agency reported Tuesday. Export growth eased from June's 43.9 percent rate while import growth tumbled from June's 34.1 percent expansion.

Beltway Confidential

How the US is losing out as the EU looks to Asia on trade

Erin Dunne · July 17, 2018 4:44 pm

Amid trade war, US watching China for cyber theft

Charlie Mitchell · July 17, 2018 4:00 am

FILE- In this June 28, 2018, file photo, rolls of finished steel are seen at the U.S. Steel Granite City Works facility in Granite City, Ill. Canada began imposing tariffs Sunday, July 1, on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods as retaliation for the Trump administration's new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United States. Some U.S. products, mostly steel and iron, face 25 percent tariffs, the same penalty the United States slapped on imported steel at the end of May.

Trump’s aluminum tariffs restore a crucial industry and protect American jobs

Jesse Gary, Bob Prusak · July 17, 2018 4:00 am

A worker straps down a steel coil at the Borusan Mannesmann steel pipe plant in Baytown, Texas. President Trump's escalating dispute with China over trade and technology is threatening jobs and profits in working-class communities where his "America First" agenda hit home.

Trump’s ear-splitting wake-up call on tariffs: 26,000 exemption requests

Daniel Strauss · July 16, 2018 3:39 pm

President Trump is offering assurances that the United States will "ultimately" work out a "pretty nasty trade battle" with China.

US challenges China, EU, Canada, Mexico, and Turkish tariffs

Sean Higgins · July 16, 2018 3:22 pm

A pedestrian enters BlackRock Park Avenue Plaza in New York.

BlackRock’s Fink warns US ‘trade friction’ is undercutting economy

Daniel Strauss · July 16, 2018 2:12 pm

The Trade Routes Not Taken

Tony Mecia · July 16, 2018 9:03 am

Wall Street firms mine profit from Trump’s market-rattling trade war

James Langford · July 16, 2018 8:29 am

President Donald Trump pauses as he participates in a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, July 13, 2017.

Trump calls EU ‘a foe’ ahead of Putin meeting

Steven Nelson · July 15, 2018 3:09 pm

On Thursday, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum imposing tariffs and investment restrictions on China in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington.

Energy and Environment

Trump’s ‘misplaced’ trade policy is risky for energy market and midterms, says donor

John Siciliano · July 15, 2018 1:00 pm

Wall Street clients are worrying about the fallout from President Trump's escalating trade disputes, but many aren't yet ready to delay capital investment.

Wall Street still sees Trump trade war as risk, not economic reality

Joe Williams, James Langford · July 13, 2018 8:55 pm

In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying speaks during a briefing at the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing.

China: US ‘selfish’ about intellectual property rights

Joel Gehrke · July 13, 2018 5:43 pm