Tag: Trade

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to the media at a news conference on Capitol Hill.

Pelosi says Congress no closer to vote on Trump USMCA trade deal

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 8:38 pm

Vsitors to the Pittsburgh veterans job fair meet with recruiters at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh.

Beltway Confidential

A hesitating but happy economy

Bruce Yandle · May 8, 2019 5:59 pm

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel patrols the Oakland estuary as the container ship Horizon Enterprise is unloaded at the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

Tariffs are bad; trade quotas are no better

alison-acosta-winters · May 8, 2019 5:13 pm

In this July 28, 2015, file photo, a man walks out of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. in Washington.

Senate restores Export-Import Bank to full operation in win for business and Trump over conservatives

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 3:41 pm

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday invoked Ronald Reagan to argue against two Republican immigration bills that could see votes today. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, file)

Why Ronald Reagan supported the Jones Act

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2019 12:10 pm

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with China's Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, April 4, 2019.

China backtracked with extensive last-minute edits to trade deal with US

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 11:50 am

In this photo taken Thursday, May 1, 2014, cranes unload imported iron ore from a ship at a port in Rizhao in east China's Shandong province. China's trade rebounded in April from the previous month's surprise contraction but imports were subdued in another sign of the country's economic slowdown. Customs data Thursday, May 8, 2014 showed exports rose 0.9 percent, recovering from March's 6.6 percent decline. Imports rose 0.8 percent, up from the previous month's 11.3 percent decline. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

‘They have to stop’: Small businesses alarmed by new Trump tariff threat

James Langford · May 8, 2019 4:01 am

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He attends the opening session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Sunday, March 3, 2019.

China shows eagerness to deal despite Trump tariff threat, analysts say

Sean Higgins · May 8, 2019 4:00 am

President Trump listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, May 3, 2019.

Trump still doesn’t get free trade

Washington Examiner · May 8, 2019 4:00 am

A woman rides a bicycle past a globe structure on display outside a bank in Beijing, Monday, May 6, 2019.

Beltway Confidential

Why intellectual property can’t be the centerpiece of a China trade deal

Tom Rogan · May 7, 2019 5:16 pm

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, right, poses with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, center, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, left, before they proceed to their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Wednesday, May 1, 2019.

Don’t abandon values just to trade with China

Joseph Moschella · May 7, 2019 11:52 am

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump holds a meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Trump turned up the pressure on China Sunday, May 5, threatening to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.

Wall Street rallies on chance China can talk Trump out of tariff hike

James Langford · May 6, 2019 9:50 pm