President Donald Trump issued the additional tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods that he’s been warning about for months should China refuse to change “unfair” trading practices with the U.S.
When the president’s top trade adviser drafted a letter to the president warning him that his trade agenda was being blocked by White House insiders, the insiders simply refused to give it to the president.
China’s state-run Global Times told readers to remain calm as the economy of Turkey teeters on the brink of collapse, but the real point of the editorial was to insist China is in far better shape than Turkey despite grappling with a currency crisis of its own.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a Russian bank for a weapons of mass destruction-related transaction connected to North Korea.
Indexing capital gains for inflation would be a big break for business owners and homeowners.
Finance officials of G20 major world economies convened in Argentina in recent days for talks, including trade discussion that U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin called “very productive.”
“He’s [threatened to withdraw] 100 times. It would totally [screw] us as a country,” a source told Axios.
President Donald Trump hinted at the need for a “different structure” for a bilateral trade deal with China just one day after the Commerce Department’s Tuesday determination that China has been using Vietnam to circumvent anti-steel dumping measures.
Washington-Wall St. Swamp creatures in the West Wing are selling out working America.
President Donald Trump sat with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House on Tuesday as he told the press he was not happy with how trade talks with China have gone.
U.S. trade negotiators will head back to China to work out details of an agreement between the two nations reached during continued trade negotiations this week resulted in a joint framework to reduce the U.S. trade deficit with China.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will continue to lead Trump administration officials holding trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He in Washington, DC, on Thursday and Friday with a focus on “rebalancing” the U.S.-China bilateral economic relationship.
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions Tuesday on the Central Bank of Iran’s Governor and a senior official, as well as an Iraq-based bank and its chairman, on charges of terror for moving money to Hizballah for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF).
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow revealed to Breitbart News Saturday listeners on SiriusXM Patriot 125 that U.S.-China trade talks will continue in D.C. next Thursday and Friday with hope for a “good deal” and the possibility that stronger measures could be required if China does not permit that.
China’s top economic adviser will travel to Washington, DC, to continue trade talks next week with top Trump administration officials following the U.S. trade delegation’s trip to China last week.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is sending his daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to attend the opening of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem.
Five top Trump administration officials are returning from two days of trade meetings with officials in China, bringing with them the message that the administration needs to give “immediate attention” to changing the U.S.-China trade and investment relationship.
Top Trump administration economic officials are headed to China in the second half of this week to discuss trade contentions between the two nations.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Countdown to the Closing Bell,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stated that the strategy on Russia sanctions was “refined” after UN Ambassador Nikki Haley announced new sanctions were coming. Mnuchin said, “We had meetings
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley took a swift shot at chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Tuesday afternoon, after he commented on her Sunday claim that the U.S. Treasury Department would sanction Russia by Monday afternoon.
UN ambassador Nikki Haley may have suffered “momentary confusion” on Sunday when she incorrectly announced that the U.S. Treasury Department would further sanction Russia, chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow told CNN on Tuesday.
Officials with influence on trade policy inside the White House believe that imposing the tariffs on Canada and Mexico in the near term, only to remove them within months if a new Nata deal is reached, would be unnecessarily disruptive.
The trade globalist wing of the White House has failed in its efforts to stop President Trump from following through on his promise to protect American industries and jobs by imposing tariffs on imported foreign products.
President Donald Trump plans to bring an enormous group of administration officials with him to the Davos World Economic Summit in January.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rebuffed a reporter’s portrayal of Davos as a “hangout for globalists” during Thursday’s White House press briefing.
First Lady Melania Trump celebrated New Year’s Eve alongside President Trump and their son, Barron, in a glittering party dress inspired by the Reagan era of the 1980s.
A slightly higher rate could create room in the tax bills to expand some other tax cuts or restore state and local tax breaks.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions this week on 13 entities believed to do business with North Korea, including four Chinese companies and one Chinese citizen.
Nineteen members of Congress published a letter criticizing Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin for omitting Hamas from the list of named terrorist groups whose financing Qatar has agreed to combat.
Top Trump administration officials indicated that while the president still backs repealing the Obamacare individual mandate, the administration would accept a tax reform package that left the mandate in place.
The U.S. State Department and Treasury announced on Thursday the expansion of personal sanctions against high-ranking North Korean officials, following the publication of a report accusing them of extreme human rights violations including rape, torture, and use of slave labor.
Dreams of bipartisan support for tax cuts were immediately dashed as Democrats declared war on GOP tax proposal.
Making lifelong Democrat Gary Cohn the White House lead on tax reform was always a risky strategy. Democrats were unlikely to cooperate with the administration on anything and Republican lawmakers instinctively distrusted Cohn’s motives and positions.
Actor George Clooney told reporters Friday that America won’t look back at this moment in history and be “proud” and claimed that Hollywood is well represented in President Donald Trump’s administration.
Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin shrugged off business demands to keep their supply of illegal-immigrant DACA workers, saying Sunday on that President Donald Trump prefers to get Americans back to work.
