Tag: Trade

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.

AFL-CIO will oppose USMCA if Mexico doesn’t change its laws

Sean Higgins · March 14, 2019 7:18 pm

Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn pauses while speaking during a television interview at the White House, Friday, Sept. 1, 2017, in Washington.

Gary Cohn: Trump ‘desperate’ for China deal

Daniel Jativa · March 14, 2019 6:44 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, March 14, 2019, in Washington.

Trump threatens EU with ‘pretty severe’ consequences if trade talks falter

Sean Higgins · March 14, 2019 6:17 pm

From left, Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Hiroshige Seko, European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmstrom, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, pose for media before meeting in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019.

Republicans and Democrats team up to demand that Trump confront EU on agriculture

Sean Higgins · March 14, 2019 3:38 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Amb. Robert Lighthizer testifies on trade policy.

Lighthizer woos Democrats on USMCA

Sean Higgins · March 13, 2019 10:07 pm

Beltway Confidential

Time for Trump to step up on Brexit

Tom Rogan · March 13, 2019 8:30 pm

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer attends a Cabinet meeting.

Trump seeking ‘a way out’ on tariffs against Canada and Mexico, Lighthizer says

Sean Higgins · March 12, 2019 8:05 pm

In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s trade war stalemate is all pain and no gain

Erin Dunne · March 12, 2019 5:12 pm

U.S. Ambassador to China Robert Lighthizer stands in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Lighthizer doesn’t rule out lifting China tariffs before Beijing reforms

Sean Higgins · March 12, 2019 4:42 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks at the China Business Conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

US and EU at ‘complete statemate’ over agriculture, Lighthizer says

Sean Higgins · March 12, 2019 4:41 pm

France's Labor Minister Muriel Penicaud gives a press conference with France's Prime Minister Edouard Philippe in Paris.

French minister accuses Trump administration of ‘protectionism’

Sean Higgins · March 12, 2019 4:30 pm

In this March 6, 2019, photo, President Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s budget fiction: Counting trade deals before they’re made

Erin Dunne · March 11, 2019 10:16 pm