Tag: Trade

Trump is running out of tariffs to place on China, but has other options for more if needed

Sean Higgins · September 25, 2018 12:00 am

President Trump hands a pen he used to South Korean President Moon Jae-in at a signing ceremony for the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 24, 2018, in New York.

Trump claims victory with inked South Korea trade deal

Sean Higgins · September 24, 2018 10:37 pm

President Donald Trump speaks on trade at Granite City Works Steel Coil Warehouse, Thursday, July 26, 2018, Granite City, Ill.

Beltway Confidential

How Trump’s trade war picks winners and losers at home

Erin Dunne · September 24, 2018 8:33 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2013, file photo, people check out opportunities during a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla. U.S. employers added 169,000 jobs in August, and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 percent, the lowest in nearly five years, according to the Labor Department, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013.

Trump’s trade war curbing CEO confidence, Business Roundtable says

James Langford · September 24, 2018 4:01 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, in Las Vegas.

China accuses Trump of ‘bullyism’ as tariffs become official

Sean Higgins · September 24, 2018 10:32 am

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping speak during a business event.

Trump misplays his trade hand

Washington Examiner · September 24, 2018 4:00 am

China said Tuesday it would take unspecified countermeasures after the US imposed tariffs on $200 billion worth of its exports, raising the prospect of a full-blown trade war.

National Security

US planning ‘administration-wide’ measures against China

Naomi Lim · September 23, 2018 11:57 pm

Shoppers check out the iPhone X at an Apple store in Beijing, China.

Beltway Confidential

Keep iPhone production in China

Colin Grabow · September 22, 2018 4:00 am

A prospective buyer outside a Dodge showroom in Littleton, Colo. U.S. automobile dealers are growing more pessimistic about future sales as interest rates rise and the Trump administration's tariffs raise the likelihood of price increases.

Auto industry nervously waits on White House tariff report

Sean Higgins · September 22, 2018 4:00 am

About an hour before Donald Trump made his joint statement with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, a strategist in Trump's extended circle saw success on the horizon. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Trump ‘very, very close’ to moving on Mexico deal without Canada, adviser says

Sean Higgins · September 21, 2018 2:58 pm

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.

Beltway Confidential

Not just tariffs: The US needs a stable China relationship long-term

Erin Dunne · September 20, 2018 3:56 pm

"It is time to go from dead last to pretty much the front of the pack. We won't have the lowest rate, but we'll be pretty close," the president said. (AP)

Corporate America gets caught between vibrant economy and Trump’s trade war

Joe Williams · September 20, 2018 3:46 pm