Tag: Free Trade

Riot police gather outside the Yuen Long MTR station during a protest in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Trump and other G7 leaders should use summit to push for free trade and a free Hong Kong

James M. Roberts · August 21, 2019 6:17 pm

How Brazil can prepare for a US trade deal

Philip Thompson · August 12, 2019 4:04 am

Magazine - Personal Finance

Then and Now: Trade

Jay Caruso · August 9, 2019 3:00 am

Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, July 11, 2019.

Fed slashes interest rates amid trade war, White House pressure

James Langford · July 31, 2019 6:02 pm

President Donald Trump, center, reaches out to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they prepare to sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is replacing the NAFTA trade deal, during a ceremony at a hotel before the start of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.

US Chamber gathers allies to sell Trump’s NAFTA overhaul to Congress

James Langford · July 25, 2019 6:31 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Winter sports industry feels tariff chill

Melissa Quinn · July 5, 2019 9:00 pm

Trader Vincent Napolitano works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, July 1, 2019. Wall Street applauded a cease-fire in the U.S. trade war with China and opened trading in July with a bang.

Wall Street pop could fizzle without real results from China trade truce

James Langford · July 1, 2019 6:59 pm

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is pictured.

Leaked nominations documents show White House worried about Robert Lighthizer’s Democratic donations

Sean Higgins · June 24, 2019 4:34 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at the 38th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol, Wednesday, May 15, 2019, in Washington.

The USMCA hinges on removing tariffs and quotas

Gerard Scimeca · June 18, 2019 4:00 am

Delaying USMCA harms American agriculture

Rep. Darin LaHood · June 18, 2019 12:00 am

A worker uses a power drill to assemble components on a diesel engine at the Cummins Inc. Seymour Engine Plant in Seymour, Indiana, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Cummins Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on February 6.

Trade war costs overpower tax-cut gains at Cummins. Consumers may be next

James Langford · June 16, 2019 4:00 am

Mexican President AndrÃ©s Manuel LÃ³pez Obrador says Mexico will not respond to President Trump's threat of coercive tariffs with desperation, but instead push for dialogue, during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace, in Mexico City, Friday, May 31, 2019.

Mexican president expects immigration tariff deal with US soon

Sean Higgins · June 4, 2019 2:35 pm