Tag: Trade

Rolls of steel weighing as much as 20 tons each await shipment the NUCOR Steel Gallatin plant, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Ghent, Ky. The plant is operating 24 hours a day to meet demand.

Trump administration approving almost half of requests to avoid steel tariffs

Sean Higgins · September 24, 2019 4:33 pm

Plastic straws and Christmas tree lights among 400 items Trump administration spares from tariffs

Melissa Quinn · September 20, 2019 6:50 pm

President Trump tweeted shortly after his phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping to announce his administration would impose a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea in light of the ballistic missile test on Monday.

Trump adviser says tariffs could go to 50% or 100% if China doesn’t agree to deal

Sean Higgins · September 19, 2019 1:43 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo an excavator removes trees that were bulldozed for a firebreak in the battle against Rim Fire along Dodge Ridge in the Stanislaus National Forest, near Tuolumne City, Calif. Wildlife advocates on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, plan to sue the U.S. Forest Service, attempting to block part of a recently unveiled plan for logging trees burned last year in the massive Sierra Nevada wildfire. The Center for Biological Diversity argues that federal forestry officials have ignored science showing that the California spotted owl population has soared since the Rim Fire scorched 400 square miles. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Timber industry pressing to be included in Trump trade war assistance for farmers

Sean Higgins · September 19, 2019 4:00 am

Containers and gantry cranes stand at Haitian Container Terminal, operated by the Xiamen Port Authority, in Xiamen, China, on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

The US Export-Import Bank is China’s cash cow

Timothy P. Carney · September 18, 2019 2:14 pm

President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi share a laugh together during a bilateral meeting at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Modi, Trump, and a rally to make foreign policy great again

Tom Rogan · September 17, 2019 1:10 pm

In this Jan. 29, 2019 photo, the logos of Huawei are displayed at its retail shop window reflecting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs office in Beijing.

Beijing backs away from including Huawei in trade talks

Sean Higgins · September 14, 2019 4:00 am

Three-week-old pigs stand in a nursery at the Paustian Enterprises farm in Walcott, Iowa, U.S., on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. China last week announced $50 billion worth of tariffs on American products including soybeans and pork in retaliation for President Trump's plan to impose duties on 1,333 Chinese products.

China excludes US soybeans and pork from tariffs

Sean Higgins · September 13, 2019 12:33 pm

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Trump eyes a tax break before 2020 election

Steven Nelson · September 13, 2019 3:00 am

child patient at the dentist

U.S.-China rift gets a relationship status

Sean Higgins · September 13, 2019 3:00 am

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.

Trade talk thaw: Chinese companies renew soybean purchases

Sean Higgins · September 12, 2019 10:36 pm

A TJ Maxx store is seen.

Retail store closures in first half of 2019 surpass all of 2018

Melissa Quinn · September 12, 2019 4:29 pm