Tag: Trade

Rep. Jim Jordan, a top conservative lawmaker, disputed that there is any movement inside the Freedom Caucus to oust House Speaker Paul Ryan or seek a change in leadership. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

Beltway Confidential

Jim Jordan suggests Paul Ryan is stepping down because tax reform was his ‘papal conversion’

Anna Giaritelli · April 11, 2018 2:02 pm

Pedestrians, one wearing a mask, walk by a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping on a street in Beijing.

China’s trade war weapon is made in America: $1.2 trillion in federal debt

Joseph Lawler · April 11, 2018 4:01 am

FILE - In this March 23, 2018. file photo, a woman pushes a shopping cart past a display of nuts imported from the United States at a supermarket in Beijing. China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of U.S. pork, fruit and other products Monday, April 2, 2018 in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce.

Strike a deal on NAFTA and save farmers from this trade war

Casey Guernsey · April 11, 2018 4:00 am

In this 2014 file photo, a central Illinois farmer uses a John Deere combine to harvest his soybean field in Loami, Ill.

Agriculture industry terrified at prospect of China tariffs

Sean Higgins · April 10, 2018 10:21 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.

Trump: Chinese President Xi Jinping showing ‘enlightenment’ on US trade demands

Anna Giaritelli · April 10, 2018 6:10 pm

In this Tuesday, March 20, 2018 photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to elected deputies after the closing session of the annual National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The Chinese Communist Party's move to exert direct control over state broadcasters and regulators of everything from movies and TV to books and radio programs shows the party's drive to use the media for ideological efforts at home and to improve its image overseas, analysts say. The move is part of a push by Xi to tighten party supervision over much of Chinese public life as he renews his uncontested rule free of constitutional limits on his terms in office.

Beijing blinks? Xi promises lower auto tariffs, respect for intellectual property rights

Pete Kasperowicz · April 10, 2018 11:55 am

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his opening speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Boao in south China's Hainan province, Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Xi promised to cut auto import taxes, open China's markets further and improve conditions for foreign companies in a speech Tuesday that called for international cooperation against a backdrop of a spiraling dispute with Washington over trade and technology.

China files WTO complaint against Trump’s steel, aluminum tariffs

Katelyn Caralle · April 10, 2018 11:24 am

Containers are loaded onto a cargo ship in east China's Shandong province. A U.S. trade dispute with China and other protectionist policies risk damaging America's economic growth, the International Monetary Fund warned.

Beltway Confidential

Death by China or life by trade

Bruce Yandle · April 9, 2018 3:21 pm

A truck transports a shipping container drives past a loaded cargo ship.

Trump: US engaged in ‘stupid trade’ with China for years

Katelyn Caralle · April 9, 2018 11:26 am

Trump and his left-wing Mexican doppelganger

Roberto Velasco-Alvarez · April 9, 2018 4:00 am

On Thursday, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum imposing tariffs and investment restrictions on China in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington.

Dan Hannan: Trump’s tariffs are just tax hikes on American consumers

Dan Hannan · April 9, 2018 4:00 am

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin gives a press conference at the G20 finance ministers and central bankers summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, March 20, 2018.

Steven Mnuchin: There could be a trade war with China, but probably not

Kelly Cohen · April 8, 2018 4:09 pm