Tag: Trade

China's Vice Premier Liu He, second right, shakes hands with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, second left, as Yi Gang, right, governor of the People's Bank of China (PBC) and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer pose for a group photo at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Friday, March 29, 2019.

Trade agreement ahead? Treasury’s Mnuchin says China talks near ‘final round’

Sean Higgins · April 13, 2019 9:50 pm

President Trump holds up examples of tariffs, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

‘Tariff Man’ Trump rides again

Bruce Yandle · April 12, 2019 9:16 pm

Magazine - Business

Airbus tariffs threaten EU trade talks

James Langford · April 12, 2019 12:00 am

In this Thursday, March 14, 2019, photo, a Border Patrol agent checks the names and documents of families who crossed the nearby U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas. Immigration authorities say they expect the ongoing surge of Central American families crossing the border to multiply in the coming months.

100 agents headed to Mexico border to combat long wait times at ports of entry

Diana Stancy Correll · April 11, 2019 9:26 pm

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, left, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, attend a meeting of senior U.S. and Chinese officials to resume trade negotiations, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House complex, in Washington.

White House working feverishly to pass USMCA despite Trump seeming to undermine it

Emily Ward · April 11, 2019 4:00 am

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee walks to chair a hearing on drug prices, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Finance and Economy

Grassley warns Trump’s new tariff threats toward Mexico could sink trade deal

Colin Wilhelm · April 10, 2019 7:49 pm

US and China agree on trade deal enforcement mechanism, Mnuchin says

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2019 7:08 pm

President Donald Trump, center, sits between Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto as they 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. The USMCA, as Trump refers to it, must still be approved by lawmakers in all three countries.

Former Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln joins pro-USMCA push

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2019 4:25 pm

China's Vice Premier Liu He, center, shakes hands with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, watched by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, right, at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Friday, March 29, 2019.

Robert Lighthizer, Steven Mnuchin to talk with Chinese counterpart on trade Tuesday evening

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2019 10:16 pm

Anti-crib death group warns that Trump tariffs threaten the lives of sleeping babies

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2019 9:54 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin arrive at a hotel in Beijing, Thursday, March 28, 2019. Mnuchin and his Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer arrive at China's capital to hold a new round of high-level trade talks with China on March 28-29, start with a working dinner.

US, Robert Lightizer chalk up win in challenge to World Trade Organization rulings

Sean Higgins · April 9, 2019 5:13 pm

In this March 28, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s next own-goal on trade: new tariffs over EU airline subsidies

Erin Dunne · April 9, 2019 2:17 pm