Tag: Trade

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Trump in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, in Washington.

Business warns steel tariffs could hurt USMCA passage

Sean Higgins · November 19, 2018 7:56 pm

China's President Xi Jinping inspects guards at Parliament House in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

Beltway Confidential

Tempers just flared at a summit between the US and China. Here’s why to expect even more of that

Erin Dunne · November 19, 2018 7:31 pm

President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May walk out together to begin their joint news conference at Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, England, Friday, July 13, 2018.

Brexit’s in trouble. The US can help

Washington Examiner · November 19, 2018 2:37 pm

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrives to speak at the APEC CEO Summit at the Pacific Explorer cruise ship docked in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Saturday.

Pence defends tariffs on billions in Chinese goods

Katelyn Caralle · November 17, 2018 4:18 pm

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the APEC CEO Summit at the Pacific Explorer cruise ship docked in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, on Saturday.

Pence: US offers better economic partnership than China

Katelyn Caralle · November 17, 2018 3:48 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, center, gestures while speaking after President Donald Trump, left, announced a revamped North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. Also on stage is White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, right. The new deal, reached just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Donald Trump had called a job-killing disaster.

Dozens of House Republicans object to gay rights language in NAFTA replacement deal

Sean Higgins · November 16, 2018 7:48 pm

President Trump speaks during a conference in D.C.

Trump says that China has submitted a list of trade demands, may make a deal

Sean Higgins · November 16, 2018 6:22 pm

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks during the Americas Economic Summit.

Commerce’s Ross says China tariff hike still set for January

Sean Higgins · November 15, 2018 11:15 pm

Death by Brexit

Dominic Green · November 15, 2018 2:45 pm

President Trump speaks at an event in D.C.

Beltway Confidential

Trump won’t win his trade war by heaping more demands on China

Erin Dunne · November 14, 2018 6:39 pm

Vice President Mike Pence speaks during an event on the creation of a United States Space Force, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, at the Pentagon. Pence says the time has come to establish a new United States Space Force to ensure America's dominance in space amid heightened completion and threats from China and Russia.

Pence: US won’t back down on China tariffs, even if it means a cold war

Robert Donachie · November 13, 2018 9:44 pm

President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris for a lunch after participating in a World War I Commemoration Ceremony, Sunday Nov. 11, 2018. International leaders are taking place in a ceremony in Paris on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War I.

The French wine tariffs Trump complained about max out at 29 cents a bottle

Sean Higgins · November 13, 2018 9:22 pm