Tag: Trade

White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow speaks with reporters at the White House.

Kudlow says US still talking to China as tariff decision looms

Sean Higgins · September 7, 2018 2:51 pm

US payrolls top growth projections with 201,000 new jobs in August

Joe Williams · September 7, 2018 12:31 pm

President Trump gives a speech in Charlotte, N.C.

Trump eyes an easy win in getting rid of the name ‘NAFTA’

Sean Higgins · September 7, 2018 4:00 am

President Trump sits with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Thursday.

Trump planning trade fight with Japan next

Sean Higgins · September 6, 2018 9:13 pm

President Trump responds to a reporters question during an event with sheriffs in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

The anti-democratic implications of an inner circle run amok

Philip Klein · September 6, 2018 5:36 pm

A worker stands on bundles of aluminum ingots on the back of a truck at a China National Materials Storage and Transportation Corp. stockyard in Wuxi, China, on Thursday, Aug. 23, 2018. The U.S. and China imposed fresh tariffs on each other's goods in the middle of trade talks aimed at averting the worsening conflict between the world's two biggest economies.

Business groups urge Trump to pull back on China tariffs

Sean Higgins · September 6, 2018 3:41 pm

President Trump makes a speech in Charlotte, N.C.

Trump says China deal not likely soon

Sean Higgins · September 5, 2018 9:10 pm

The U.S. trade deficit rose in January to the highest level since October 2008, defying President Trump's efforts to bring more balance to America's trade with the rest of the world, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Trade deficit jumped in July as imports soared, despite Trump’s tariffs

Sean Higgins · September 5, 2018 2:29 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping, second left, looks on during a meeting.

Beltway Confidential

Not quite no strings attached: What Beijing gets from investments in Africa

Erin Dunne · September 4, 2018 11:11 pm

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, speaks during a committee hearing.

The NAFTA ball is in Canada’s side of the court, key congressional Republican says

Sean Higgins · September 4, 2018 10:23 pm

Sen. John Kyl, R-Ariz., talks outside his office in the Capitol on Oct. 1, 2008, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Jon Kyl’s lobbyist past is a problem

Philip Wegmann · September 4, 2018 9:53 pm

Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., left, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Trade, listens as Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., right, ranking member, questions witnesses about the effect of foreign tariffs on American agriculture, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 18, 2018.

Democrats to force committee vote on getting White House documents on tariffs

Sean Higgins · September 4, 2018 8:22 pm