Tag: Trade

In this Aug. 15, 2007 file photo, Graham and Lola East shop for Chiquita bananas at a produce stand at the Farmers Market in Los Angeles. Not even a month after flatly rejecting a takeover bid by two Brazilian companies, Chiquita is softened its stance and will open its books to them.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s five most absurd ‘reciprocal’ tariffs

Timothy P. Carney · April 8, 2025 10:38 am

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the closing ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 10, 2025.

China accuses Trump of ‘blackmailing’ with hefty tariff rates: ‘Fight to the end’

Emily Hallas · April 8, 2025 10:19 am

WATCH LIVE: Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer testifies before Senate Finance Committee

Jack Birle · April 8, 2025 9:52 am

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House on Marine One, Sunday, April 6, 2025

Trump’s trade war may be won or lost at home

W. James Antle III · April 8, 2025 7:00 am

Scott Bessent, United States Secretary of the Treasury, speaks at an Economic Club of New York

Trump tasks Bessent with negotiating ‘golden age’ of trade with Japan

Zach Halaschak · April 7, 2025 4:39 pm

Trump won’t pause reciprocal tariffs to allow for negotiations

Christian Datoc · April 7, 2025 4:06 pm

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington.

Trump’s tariffs far harsher than other metrics that measure foreign tariff rates

Emily Hallas · April 7, 2025 4:05 pm

Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., a Republican moderate, talks to reporters as he arrives to the Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

White House threatens to veto Congress’s efforts to rein in tariff power

Lauren Green · April 7, 2025 3:53 pm

Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Commerce, testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing for his pending confirmation on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Lutnick’s reasoning behind Trump ‘penguin tariffs’

Christian Papillon · April 7, 2025 3:42 pm

President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn as he arrives at the White House on Marine One, Sunday, April 6, 2025

Conservatives rally behind Trump’s pro-tariff mantra: ‘Don’t be a panican’

Heather Hunter · April 7, 2025 3:10 pm

Trump cancels Netanyahu press conference as tariff agenda wreaks havoc on markets

Christian Datoc, Mabinty Quarshie · April 7, 2025 1:49 pm

President Donald Trump said Monday that he would impose an additional 50% tariff on all Chinese goods if China doesn't withdraw retaliatory barrier taxes the country put in place over the weekend.

Trump threatens additional 50% tariff on China

Christian Datoc · April 7, 2025 12:12 pm