Tag: Trade

President Donald Trump speaks at the Department of Energy in Washington, Thursday, June 29, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

Trump trade war threatens American energy dominance

Dan K. Eberhart · July 26, 2018 4:00 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech at the opening of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg Wednesday, July 25 2017. The summit runs through Friday with various heads of BRICS attending.

Beltway Confidential

The crucial BRICS summit matters to the US

Erin Dunne · July 25, 2018 9:39 pm

Ford profits plunge amid ‘business headwinds,’ rising metals costs

Joe Williams · July 25, 2018 8:52 pm

President Donald Trump meets with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, July 25, 2018, in Washington.

Europe to purchase more soybeans as part of preliminary trade deal with Trump

Gabby Morrongiello · July 25, 2018 8:45 pm

President Trump (right) meets with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Now the EU wants to hit US tech companies with a new big tax

Mattie Duppler · July 25, 2018 8:13 pm

Fiat Chrysler braces for impact of Trump’s steel tariffs in 2019

Joe Williams · July 25, 2018 1:49 pm

The General Motors Co. headquarters in Detroit.

General Motors lowers profit target as Trump tariffs push up supply costs

Joe Williams · July 25, 2018 12:11 pm

The destroyer USS Truxtun sits in dry dock at the General Dynamics shipyard facility on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Va. General Dynamics and rival contractors stand to benefit from increased U.S. military spending.

General Dynamics sales hit $9.2 billion as U.S. pumps cash into defense industry

James Langford · July 25, 2018 7:52 am

Farmer Tim Novotny of Wahoo, shreds male corn plants in a field of seed corn, in Wahoo, Neb., on July 24, 2018.

Where did Trump find $12B to bail out farmers?

Pete Kasperowicz · July 25, 2018 4:00 am

Kevin Cramer of North Dakota is a talkative first-term senator who says he speaks with the president once a week on oil policy matters after being Trumpâs energy adviser during the campaign.

Amid grumbling, Republicans quietly relieved about Trump’s farm aid package

David M. Drucker · July 25, 2018 4:00 am

A withered Donald Trump campaign flag flies over a field on May 1, 2018, in Maricopa, Calif.

Beltway Confidential

Emergency farm aid is a New Deal solution to a stupid #MAGAnomics problem

Philip Wegmann · July 24, 2018 8:51 pm

The federal government currently spends about $15 billion a year on myriad agricultural subsidies. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Farm groups praise $12 billion aid package, urge pullback on trade fights

Sean Higgins · July 24, 2018 7:30 pm