Protectionism

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will move quickly to ratify the new North American trade pact, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday, a day after the United States agreed to lift tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. U.S. Presiden…

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will move quickly to ratify the new North American trade pact, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday, a day after the United States agreed to lift tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. U.S. President Donald Trump ha…

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top currency diplomat Masatsugu Asakawa said Group of 20 finance leaders likely will not include language in their communique saying that members will fight protectionism, the Sankei newspaper reported on Friday. Japan, as chair of …

PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron poured cold water on the idea of implementing protectionist measures on tech companies like Huawei. Asked by CNBC's Karen Tso Thursday about U.S. pressure on the Chinese telecommunications giant, he said: "We have some …

It is appalling that the clash of the worlds economic titans, the U.S. and China, vis-à-vis their sordid tariff war, has now escalated (Page 1, China hits back, imposes tariff hike on U.S. goods worth $60 bn, May 14). Undoubtedly, the trade war has been initi…

Addressing the shrinking of the middle class is crucial to fight the rise of nationalism, protectionism and populism in the next European elections, Margherita Movarelli argues. Nowadays we are all very much exposed to populist messages. There is nothing new…

(Adds further Trump comments in paragraphs 8,9) * China's higher tariffs on U.S. goods effective June 1 * Trump says he will meet Chinese president in June * Financial markets rattled by escalating trade war By Jeff Mason and Se Young Lee WASHINGTON/BEIJ…

The meet, being organised in New Delhi, aims for a consensus between developing and LDCs on key issues and challenges related to the Organization, according to the Commerce Ministry. The ongoing impasse preventing the appointment of new members to the World …

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, May 10, 2019. . Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP T…

A crumbling global economy, job losses, and a spooked market — just to start. China is clearly unhappy about President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war — and it just retaliated in a way that could hurt global markets and further damage ties between the wor…