Trade War

Alex Plavevski/EPA Published: May 7, 2026 2.22pm CEST As Xi Jinping prepares to host Donald Trump for a delayed summit in Beijing on May 14-15, a lot has changed since the US president’s last visit to China in November 2017. Trump’s first trade war with China began in earnest the…

Toronto Ontario Premier Doug Ford is rejecting any idea of putting U.S. alcohol back on store shelves in Ontario without the White House first conceding in the ongoing trade war. Ontario premier has previously said ban will remain until tariffs removed or new trade deal reached The Canadian Press ·…

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that Canada must work to correct “weaknesses” formed from its close ties with the U.S. but also stressed Canadians have “faced down threats like this before.” “Many of our former strengths based on our close ties to America have become our weaknesses,” he said…

OTTAWA, April 13 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a parliamentary majority for his Liberal government on Monday, a win that he has said will help him deal more effectively with the trade war started by U.S. President Donald Trump. It will also likely mean Carney, who took…

WAHOO, Neb. (AP) — Strong winds whipped around Doug Bartek, a fifth-generation farmer, as he headed into a grain bin to shovel soybeans onto a conveyor chute. The 60-year-old was anxious at the onset of the spring planting season, rattling off the long list of issues affecting his family’s livelihood…

BEIJING: U.S. President Donald Trump is due to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in May during his first visit to China in eight years, a closely watched trip that comes just a year after Washington rolled out sweeping and at times erratic global tariffs. The confrontation between the world's two…

As China and the United States wrapped up their sixth and most recent round of trade talks in Paris this March, a minor mishap briefly stole the spotlight. A sudden gust of wind toppled two American flags in the background, where journalists were waiting for US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.…

World Canada's finance minister François-Philippe Champagne is in China to continue diversifying trading partners and strengthen the economy. This visit follows that of Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier this year as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war has driven more and more countries to turn toward China, the world's second-largest…

Liberal MP Michael Ma's apology for confronting an academic witness about whether her evidence on forced labour in Chinese aluminum supply chains could be "hearsay" coincides with a highly sensitive moment in Canada's ongoing trade war with the Trump administration. After some of the tariffs Canada faced were struck down…

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