Trade War

China put a positive face Saturday on a first-step trade agreement that dials down a trade war it blames the US for starting. Chinese experts and news media joined government officials in saying the deal would reduce uncertainty for companies, at least in th…

Mary E. Lovely is a professor of economics at Syracuse University and non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. The opinions expressed in this commentary are her own. The US Trade Representative's announcement of a "Ph…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The proposed tariffs would have hit a wide range of electronics, including all of Apple's major products The US and China have announced a preliminary trade agreement. The so-called phase one deal will see billions…

Associated Press/Charlie Neibergall Donald Trump has offered to slash planned tariffs and cut existing duties as part of a preliminary trade deal with China, according to the Wall Street Journal.The US president has proposed scrapping duties…

President Donald Trump signed off on a phase-one trade deal with China, averting the Dec. 15 introduction of a new wave of U.S. tariffs on about US$160 billion of consumer goods from the Asian nation, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal pr…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund would welcome any deal to reduce U.S.-China trade tensions and tariffs, but is urging the world’s two largest economies to permanently resolve their 17-month trade war, IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said on Th…

Dec 14th 2019 SHANGHAI AYEAR AGO an economic forecasting unit in the Chinese government published an outlook for the coming year. The big worry, it concluded, was the external environment. Shipments to America, Chinas biggest customer, would suffer as the t…

AYEAR AGO an economic forecasting unit in the Chinese government published an outlook for the coming year. The big worry, it concluded, was the external environment. Shipments to America, Chinas biggest customer, would suffer as the trade war dragged on. Chin…

Today, on stage at TechCrunch Berlin, four of Atomico’s most senior partners took the stage together for the first time, flying into the city from London, Stockholm, and Geneva to talk about a wide range of issues. Among the many things we discussed were dire…

Democrats must link Trumps trade agenda to his racism and xenophobia. They should emphasize that in Trumps worldview, every import is an insult to him, and every trading partner is a villain trying to rip us off. Thus, tariffs and walls must be erected to pro…