Tag: Trade

Republicans will take up a spending bill in the spring to fund the wall, which could cost $14 billion. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump insists Mexico is paying for the border wall

Katelyn Caralle · December 13, 2018 12:56 pm

In this photo taken Nov. 13, 2018, bicycle mechanic Boo Scott, left, explains a bike component to assembler Alan Everitt in the bike repair department in REI Co-op's flagship store in Seattle. For the fourth consecutive year, REI said that on the popular Black Friday shopping day it will close all 153 stores, process no online payments and pay more than 12,000 employees, encouraging them to recreate outdoors with friends and family. The company calls it #OptOutside.

Want to help US businesses suffering from tariffs? Cut the de minimis threshold

Pat Cunnane · December 12, 2018 2:33 pm

In this undated photo released by Huawei, Huawei's chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is seen in a portrait photo. China on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, demanded Canada release the Huawei Technologies executive who was arrested in a case that adds to technology tensions with Washington and threatens to complicate trade talks.

Huawei CFO granted bail by Canadian court

Katelyn Caralle · December 12, 2018 12:06 am

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer leaves the stage after speaking at the 9th China Business Conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AmCham China are hosting the event. The U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs on $150 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what it argues are Beijing's unfair trade practices and its requirement that U.S. companies turn over technology in exchange for access to its market. China has said it would subject $50 billion of U.S. goods to tariffs if the U.S. taxes its products. A delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Lighthizer and trade adviser Peter Navarro will visit Beijing for negotiations later this week.

Top US, China officials try to ease trade tensions in call covering industrial policy, agriculture

Sean Higgins · December 11, 2018 3:03 pm

FILE - This May 8, 2008 file photo shows the production line at the BMW assembly plant in Greer, S.C. It has been 20 years since BMW announced it would build an automotive plant in South Carolina. Two decades later, the plant churns out 30,000 vehicles a month and remains a touchstone in the stateâs modern history. (AP Photo/The Greenville News, Ken Osburn, File)

US automakers surge on report China will lower vehicle tariffs

Joe Williams · December 11, 2018 2:14 pm

Indiaâs Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Biden,Â June 2023.

What’s behind Wall Street’s doubts about Trump’s ‘incredible’ trade deal with China

James Langford · December 11, 2018 5:00 am

China has accused the United States of using pressure tactics and blackmail in threatening to impose tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese imports.

Trump officials see a trade-talk advantage: China is maxed out on tariffs

Sean Higgins · December 11, 2018 5:00 am

Employees look over 2018 Honda Accord vehicles on the customer preparation line at the Honda of America Manufacturing Inc. Marysville Auto Plant in Marysville, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. More than three decades afterÂ Honda Motor Co.Â first built an Accord sedan at its Marysville factory in 1982, humans are still an integral part of the assembly process -- and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

Business, labor groups tell administration to pressure Japan on cars

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2018 9:19 pm

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. The USMCA, as Trump refers to it, must still be approved by lawmakers in all three countries.

Chamber of Commerce conditions support for Trump’s USMCA deal on lifting metals tariffs for Mexico and Canada

Sean Higgins · December 10, 2018 8:14 pm

Members of the U.S.military place razor wire along the U.S.-Mexico border on the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge, Friday, Nov. 2, 2018, in McAllen, Texas.

Trump’s threat to shut down the border would disrupt $300B in trade

Anna Giaritelli · December 10, 2018 5:00 am

White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow talks with reporters about trade negotiations with China, at the White House, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in Washington.

Larry Kudlow: No guarantee that Trump won’t release Huawei exec as part of a trade deal with China

Pete Kasperowicz · December 9, 2018 2:33 pm

A Chinese national flag flies as a man uses a smartphone in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. Apple, which has lost a fifth of its value in a tech market rout since October, is poised for another setback after U.S. PresidentÂ Donald TrumpÂ suggested that 10 percent tariffs could be placed on mobile phones, like the iPhone, and laptops made in China.

US ‘more likely than not’ to double China tariffs when truce ends

James Langford · December 7, 2018 7:26 pm