Trade War

French President Emmanuel Macron insisted Friday that he would not "abandon" fishermen demanding post-Brexit licences for waters off the Channel island of Jersey, escalating a battle of words that could spiral into a trade war. "We are going to continue to fight, we will not abandon our fishermen," Macron told…

In business, China is becoming a world unto itself THE TRADE war between America and China paradoxically brought some of the countries’ citizens closer together. Ben Kostrzewa, a trade lawyer for Hogan Lovells, moved from Washington, DC, to Hong Kong to help his corporate clients navigate duties, sanctions and export…

Wednesday 10 November 2021 12:14 pm A Stormont minister said this morning that if the EU triggers a trade war in the Irish Sea border dispute, it would be a political bid to weaken Northern Ireland’s place in the UK,. DUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots was responding to suggestions that…

Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly. For a better experience use Google Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge. The Government and the EU are urgently seeking to dissuade the UK from triggering…

Most of the former Conservative party treasurers elevated to the House of Lords in the last 25 years have made very few spoken contributions once there, Guardian analysis has found. One former treasurer, Philip Harris, who like many of the recent incumbents is also a major Tory party donor, has…

/ Europe Issued on: 09/11/2021 - 13:25 Trawlers pictured in the French port of Granville, Normandy, on November 4, 2021. © Nicolas Garriga, AP France urged Tuesday a "rapid solution" to a fishing dispute with Britain that has threatened to degenerate into a full-blown trade war, after new talks aimed…

By BBC News Staff Image source, PA Media Image caption, Owen Paterson resigned as an MP earlier this week The Metro calls the ongoing row about lobbying a "storm in a sleaze cup" after government minister George Eustice described the controversy involving Owen Paterson as "a Westminster storm in a…

Factory talk hasn’t been this hot since the height of the U.S.-China trade war. Then: Some companies shifted production out of China to dodge tariffs and moved factories to places like Vietnam.Now: They’re scrambling to push production to China — and other countries.Why it matters: The Delta variant hit manufacturing…

By Mary O'Connor BBC News Image source, Arjan Buurveld Image caption, The Cornelis Gert Jan, which is owned by MacDuff Shellfish of Scotland, was detained when fishing in French waters A British trawler has been seized by France and another has been fined, amid an escalating row over post-Brexit fishing…

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