Tag: Trade

Beltway Confidential

Trade deals aren’t just for manufacturing, they can lower drug prices too

Grover Norquist, Alex Hendrie · September 26, 2018 8:47 pm

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reviews an honor guard during a welcome ceremony at the Bayi Building in Beijing, Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

National Security

As tensions with China rise, Jim Mattis tries to keep military relations on even keel

Jamie McIntyre · September 26, 2018 7:28 pm

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pauses as he considers a reporter's question, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Washington.

Fed chair downplays risks of trade war, sidesteps Trump criticisms

Colin Wilhelm · September 26, 2018 7:25 pm

President Donald Trump answers a reporters question about Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh during a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque at the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, at U.N. Headquarters.

White House says China trade retaliation is election interference

Steven Nelson · September 26, 2018 6:32 pm

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.

American car buyers ‘running out of patience’ with Trump’s tariffs

James Langford · September 26, 2018 6:21 pm

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and President Donald Trump, right, listen to a question from the media during a news conference at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club, Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Palm Beach, Fla.

US-Japan bilateral trade deal in the works

Sean Higgins · September 26, 2018 4:01 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks with Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland as they leave a news conference, which included Mexico's Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017.

Trump is cracking the Mexico-Canada united front on NAFTA

Sean Higgins · September 26, 2018 4:00 am

Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster reportedly told the National Security Council that using the term "radical Islamic terrorism" is not helpful because terrorists are "un-Islamic." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

H.R. McMaster: ‘Wholly appropriate’ for Gary Cohn to remove letter from Trump’s desk

Daniel Chaitin · September 26, 2018 12:05 am

President Trump addresses members of the news media as he arrives with first lady Melania Trump, left, and Nikki Haley.

Trump’s sovereignty doctrine

Washington Examiner · September 25, 2018 10:34 pm

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer arrives at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in Washington, ahead of the arrival of Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. Canada, America's longtime ally and No. 2 trading partner, was left out of a proposed deal Trump just reached with Mexico and is scrambling to keep its place in the regional free-trade bloc â and fend off the threat of U.S. taxes on its vehicles.

Robert Lighthizer warns that US is ‘running out of time’ with Mexican trade deal

Sean Higgins · September 25, 2018 3:29 pm

Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland attends a news conference during a meeting of Women Foreign Ministers in Montreal, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018.

Canada’s foreign minister says Americans are ceding leadership of the free world

Sean Higgins · September 25, 2018 2:25 pm

Nicolas Peter, member of the board of management of BMW AG, Finance, introduces the new BMW X3 M40i at the North American International Auto Show, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, in Detroit.

BMW curbs 2018 profit forecast due to Trump’s tariffs, new emissions rules

Joe Williams · September 25, 2018 2:16 pm