International trade

Fmr. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called on the West to to keep Chinese telecommunications company Huawei out of 5G networks.

The White House corrected a misstatement made by Larry Kudlow on Monday, noting that a trade truce with China began on December 1.

The collapse of American manufacturing thanks to decades of international free trade agreements acted as the catalyst for the general economic decline of the U.S. white working class and black Americans, a new study reveals.

President Donald Trump declared the G7 summit a success for the United States in an interview with Fox & Friends on Friday.

President Donald Trump is set to announce tariffs and investment restrictions aimed at convincing China to halt practices the U.S. believes are a form of economic aggression, according to White House officials.

Michael Pillsbury, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of The Hundred-Year Marathon: China’s Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower, described the Trump Administration’s implementation of tariffs on aluminum and steel imports as insufficient measures towards curbing China’s goal of displacing U.S. geopolitical global dominance.

John Zmirak, senior editor at The Stream, warned in an interview Tuesday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak that China is “arming faster than Hitler was arming in the thirties.”

Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, discussed America’s aluminum and steel industries in an interview Monday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. Destruction of America’s aluminum and steel industries via Chinese commodity dumping would leave America “vulnerable to blackmail on key component parts” needed for the U.S. to have “a modern industrial economy,” Manning said.

President Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs will combat China’s “deliberate attempt to bankrupt our strategic industries” vital to our national defense, said Curtis Ellis, the senior policy adviser for America First Policies.

Trump previews a new round of trade penalties to be applied against other countries that tax U.S. products.

China pushed back this week against U.S. criticism of its mercantilism policies and attempts to force U.S. companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms

The British Government’s leading Remainer, Philip Hammond, is thought to have triumphed over his Leave-supporting rivals in Cabinet, with the UK set to agree to a transitional Brexit which will allow the EU to block new UK trade deals.

International Trade Secretary Dr Liam Fox has said that the “very big, very powerful” trade deal which U.S. President Donald Trump wants to negotiate with Brexit Britain will be only one of many around the world, as the country takes its place as “the global champion for free trade”.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed Israel Saturday night to take part in a summit of West African nations in Liberia’s capital of Monrovia, saying that he would use the trip to try and garner their support for Israel at the UN and other international forums.

President Donald Trump announced a new executive order to promote his America First agenda, ordering the federal government to implement his buy American, and hire American policies.

Report states that China will offer two small economic concessions to President Donald Trump’s administration in the hope of maintaining friendly relations with the United States.

Ron Grossman of the Chicago Tribune writes that Donald Trump’s strong working-class support was not because of racism but because those voters rejected the Democrat-reinforced “concept that nothing can be done to save American jobs from the force of globalization.”

Reuters – Britain will look to hire foreign trade negotiators to help it meet the challenge of striking new trade deals with countries in Europe and beyond after last month’s shock decision to leave the European Union, foreign minister Philip Hammond

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that “when we develop trade policies” the US should “take a hard look at the needs of the people in those countries as well” and he would prefer spending more on foreign

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated, “The 45% tax is a threat, it was not a tax, it was a threat” regarding his proposed 45% tariff during Thursday’s Republican presidential debate on CNN. After fellow candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz

Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz said that he has “always opposed TPP” and “we’re getting killed in international trade right now” during Thursday’s Republican presidential debate on CNN. Cruz was asked, “[Y]ou were a supporter of the Pacific

As Donald Trump called for cracking down on Chinese currency manipulation, other candidates—most notably, Marco Rubio—argued against Trump.

The Texas economy has taken hits from a plunge in oil prices, global economic weakness, and a stronger U.S. dollar during the last year. One indication of this combined blow is the latest report by the Dallas Federal Reserve showing a 7.7 percent drop in exports during the last year through July. With exports contributing to almost one-fifth of the state’s total economy and supporting more than one million jobs, it’s no shock that the state’s economy is slowing.

Rep. Alan Grayson, the outspoken and often controversial congressman from Florida, recently penned an opinion editorial in the Huffington Post, where he pointed out that the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)—or “Fast-Track”—is unconstitutional.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced on April 21 they were targeting 700 businesses in the Miami, FL area for “enhanced scrutiny” in order to detect activity by Latin American criminal organizations related to trade-based money laundering.

President Obama pushed Congress to approve Trade Promotion Authority during his weekly address on Saturday. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody.  At a moment when our businesses are creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s, we’ve still got to