China retaliated with tariffs on U.S. imports after Trump imposed tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports.
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The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
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Ghana is taking advantage of its strategic location in Africa
Congress was once the seat of all power on U.S. trade policy.
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President Trump has unilaterally raised tariffs and sparked trade wars, all without consulting Congress. A century ago, the roles were reversed.
The founders weren’t exactly free traders.
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Arguments over Trump’s tariffs and trade wars are just the latest salvo in a heated debate that has raged since the dawn of the American republic.
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Donald Trump says trade wars are easy to win. Is he right?
A weaker domestic economy could limit Trump’s options.
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Trump may find it harder to maintain support for his escalating tariffs on China if the US economy shows further signs of weakness.
Under a new deal between the U.S. and Mexico, Mexico will send 6,000 troops to its southern border with Guatemala to prevent migrants from continuing their northward journey toward the United States.
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Mexico says it emerged from tariff negotiations in Washington with its ‘dignity intact.’ But that dignity comes at great cost to the migrants fleeing extreme violence in Central America.
Waging tariff war.
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Other countries have tried linking migration to foreign policy before – it needs to be a credible and capable threat to work.
Mexican avocados may soon be more expensive in American supermarkets.
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President Trump plans to put a 5% tariff on every Mexican good that crosses the border unless Mexico does more to reduce the flow of migrants.
An Iowa farmer holds some of his soybeans.
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China has reportedly halted all purchases of US soybeans. Here’s why that’s going to be very painful for American farmers.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has played a lot of golf with President Donald Trump over the past two years.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs the US to confront North Korea, revitalize Japan’s economy and boost his standing at home. And he knows flattery is the way to this president’s heart.
The trade war has high costs for both the U.S and China.
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An economist explains why the US and Chinese governments are most likely to dig in their heels rather than find a compromise to end the costly trade conflict.
Resolution of the US-China trade dispute will requite the intervention of the two countries’ leaders, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump.
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The US has raised its tariffs on Chinese imports, bring the two nations to the brink of a trade war.
Who will blink first?
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Trump’s embrace of bilateralism in trade relations has pernicious long-term consequences, including ratcheting up the odds of violent conflict.
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What is the Common Market 2.0 proposal, also known as Norway+ and what would it mean in practice?
Views on the border: Arlene Foster from Northern Ireland’s DUP meets Irish premier Leo Varadkar at a reception in Washington.
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The UK’s no-deal tariff plan was viewed in Dublin as a way to scare Brexiteers into supporting Theresa May’s deal.
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A long tradition of casting blame abroad for economic woes.
Economists and Wall Street workers fear a recession is underway.
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Financial markets are increasingly worried the US economy is heading for a crash. An economist explains what’s got investors spooked.
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We may be on the cusp of a full-blow trade war that could reconfigure globalisation.
Trump had a full hand, but he may have squandered it.
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Boasting the world’s biggest and strongest economy, the U.S. has enormous leverage when it sits down with a partner to negotiate a trade deal. Threats and tariffs are not really helping.