Tag: Trade

Beltway Confidential

Poll: Mexico poised to disappear behind the Iron Curtain?

David Freddoso · April 2, 2018 8:38 pm

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Dow Jones, S&P 500 widen losses after worst quarter of Trump’s term

James Langford · April 2, 2018 8:04 pm

Beltway Confidential

Watch ginseng exports to China and this Wisconsin county to read Trump’s 2020 tea leaves

Philip Wegmann · April 2, 2018 2:01 pm

Women push a shopping cart near nuts and sweets imported from the United States and other countries displayed on a section selling imported foods at a supermarket in Beijing, Monday, April 2, 2018. China raised import duties on a $3 billion list of U.S. pork, fruit and other products Monday in an escalating tariff dispute with President Donald Trump that companies worry might depress global commerce.

China announces retaliatory tariffs on $3 billion in US exports

Katelyn Caralle · April 2, 2018 12:09 pm

In this March 26, 2018, photo, Hyundai Motor's vehicles are seen at the company's export yard in Ulsan, South Korea. Unions at South Korea's two-largest automakers, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, say plans to revise a free trade deal with the United States involve concessions that will prevent local automakers from entering the fast-growing U.S. pick-up truck market.

The disappointing truth about the new US-South Korea trade deal

Washington Examiner · April 2, 2018 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Will GOP voters stay home in 2018? You would think

Adam Brandon · March 30, 2018 4:05 pm

"The deal with North Korea is very much in the making and will be, if completed, a very good one for the World. Time and place to be determined," President Trump (pictured left) tweeted on Friday evening about meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

National Security

Trump touts South Korea deal as ‘very strong card’ for North Korea negotiations

Gabby Morrongiello · March 29, 2018 6:43 pm

Trump is also expected to use his trip to South Korea to remind Pyongyang that the White House still sees any further attempts to develop a nuclear arsenal as unacceptable. (Kazuhiro Nogi/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump unveils ‘great’ first trade deal with South Korea

Gabby Morrongiello · March 28, 2018 4:48 pm

Trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday. U.S. stocks rose sharply in early trading Monday as the market made up some of its huge losses from last week.

Beltway Confidential

Wall Street’s verdict is in: Trade tariffs are bad for the economy

Tim Worstall · March 28, 2018 2:46 pm

Vice President Mike Pence speaks to members of the media at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, as he leaves Washington for Utah ahead of the vice presidential debate schedule for Oct. 7.

Midterm push: Mike Pence’s nationwide tour to tout tax cuts

W. James Antle III · March 28, 2018 4:01 am

A man watches a TV screen showing South Korean President Moon Jae-in, right, and U.S. President Donald Trump during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Trump and Moon, who are both planning to meet North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un this spring, pledged Friday to maintain "maximum pressure" on his authoritarian regime and seek action on giving up his nukes, the White House said.

White House reaches tentative trade deal with South Korea

Sean Higgins · March 28, 2018 1:00 am

A monthlong slide in steelmakers' stocks doesn't accurately reflect the benefits they'll receive from President Trump's tariffs on metals, Credit Suisse says.

Why ‘lite’ version of Trump tariffs will fuel rebound for steelmakers

James Langford · March 27, 2018 4:57 pm