Tag: Trade

A worker walks past paper rolls at a newsprint plant.

Paper manufacturers win by snagging exclusions to China tariffs

Sean Higgins · December 28, 2018 10:21 pm

In this Aug. 7, 2013, file photo, farmer Ben Burgess carries a type of low-yield rice from a rice field near Coy, Ark. The Food and Drug Administration says consumers shouldn't worry too much about levels of arsenic in rice â but should vary their diets just in case. The agency released a study Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, of arsenic in 1,300 samples of rice and rice products, the largest study to date looking at the carcinogen's presence in that grain. Consumer groups have pressured the FDA to set a standard for the amount of arsenic that can be present in rice products.

China allows first-ever US rice imports

Sean Higgins · December 28, 2018 2:07 pm

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent passes birdwatcher Nancy Hill, 81, along a section of the border wall Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, in Hidago, Texas.

Trump threatens southern border closure amid partial government shutdown

David Mark · December 28, 2018 12:44 pm

On Wall Street, Trump trade loses its mojo

James Langford · December 28, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump waves between 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 G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018.

Trump weighs canceling NAFTA to force hand of Democrats on trade

Colin Wilhelm · December 28, 2018 5:00 am

This cylinder hauler at Paducah's Babcock & Wilcox Conversion Services plant delivers the first of DOE's 14-ton depleted uranium cylinders to USEC for re-enrichment as part of a five-party agreement that is extending enrichment operations at the 60-year-old plant for another year, delaying increased costs at the site for DOE.

Energy and Environment

Don’t impose a quota on uranium imports

David Tamasi · December 27, 2018 2:19 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during a conference to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's Reform and Opening Up policy at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

What Beijing’s latest move on trade law means for a deal with Trump

Erin Dunne · December 27, 2018 1:18 pm

Evens Presendeaux of Haiti (center) speaks with coworkers on the floor of a factory in Tijuana, Mexico. Presendeaux is among about 4,000 Haitians to establish roots in Mexico's northwest corner after the United States abruptly closed its doors late last year. The Mexican government has welcomed them, and they are already having an outsize economic and cultural impact.

Mexico’s new minimum wage may not be enough for Democrats cool on trade deal

Sean Higgins · December 26, 2018 11:02 pm

Children wave U.S. and Chinese flags as President Trump arrives at Beijing Airport, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, in Beijing, China. Trump is on a five country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s trade war comes at the expense of real sanctions on China

Erin Dunne · December 24, 2018 3:07 pm

Luis Ramos works at the Howard McCray's commercial refrigeration manufacturing facility in Philadelphia.

Beltway Confidential

Manufacturers are overconfident about the economy

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 21, 2018 4:54 pm

President Trump with Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting at the G-20 Summit, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Trump expects China to play by the rules on trade

Dan K. Eberhart · December 21, 2018 4:00 pm

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange listen as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is seen on a video screen giving a news conference from Washington after the Fed announced a rate increase, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

Beltway Confidential

The Fed made the right call with rate hikes

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 19, 2018 11:18 pm