Tag: Trade

Business lobby says adding policies explicitly favoring U.S. companies or products in negotiations with Canada and Mexico would do more harm than good. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Chamber of Commerce warns against ‘buy American’ in NAFTA

Sean Higgins · June 13, 2017 5:20 pm

Rosa Labonte works on a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica on the assembly line at the Windsor Assembly Plant, Friday, May 6, 2016 in Windsor. NAFTA's rules of origin are particularly important to automakers, who use supply chains spread across all three member countries. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Canada companies push to maintain NAFTA’s ‘made in America’ definition

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2017 8:20 pm

With a draft executive order in hand and a finger on the kill switch, President Trump was talked out of pulling out of NAFTA at the eleventh hour when Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the White House to get him to stop, saying America's sudden exit would be too much of an economic "shock to the system." (AP photos)

Can Trump reshape NAFTA?

Sean Higgins · June 12, 2017 4:01 am

It’s President Trump vs. The Trump Administration

Irwin M. Stelzer · June 10, 2017 12:30 pm

President Trump dismissed the investigation into his administration's possible collusion with Russia as a "witch hunt." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to announce new Cuba policy in Miami next week

Anna Giaritelli · June 9, 2017 10:34 pm

Kevin Hassett predicted in his 1999 book that the Dow would hit 36,000 in a matter of a few years. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump economist nominee explains his infamous botched stock prediction

Joseph Lawler · June 6, 2017 4:39 pm

The potential imposition of protective tariffs on solar panels would actually help foreign-owned companies and hurt U.S. workers and consumers. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

Crony capitalism masquerading as trade protectionism in the solar panel industry

Horace Cooper · June 5, 2017 4:10 pm

Trump Criticizes Trade with a Country that Benefits His Voters

David Allen Martin · June 1, 2017 5:22 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on as China's Premier Li Keqiang, left, gestures. Germany doesn't want a trade war with the U.S. but would respond to tariffs.

Beltway Confidential

Germany’s ambassador warns Trump: Don’t start a trade war

Tom Rogan · June 1, 2017 12:00 pm

Hawaii stopped producing sugar entirely in December, after more than a century in the business. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy, File)

Beltway Confidential

Thanks to Mexican dumping, you can say aloha to Hawaiian sugar

James Martin · May 30, 2017 11:00 pm

If Trump and Republicans want to keep the national media on the defensive, they can pursue the issues he campaigned on and, other than absolutely necessary bathroom breaks, do nothing else. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

US-Europe trade deal still possible, Commerce’s Ross says

Sean Higgins · May 30, 2017 9:35 pm

President Donald Trump speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G7 Summit in Italy. Trump told European officials that the Germans are "very bad" on trade. "Look at the millions of cars they sell in the U.S., and we'll stop that," he said. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Trump told European officials that Germans are ‘very bad’ on trade

Alex Pappas · May 26, 2017 10:59 am