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Actor Brad Pitt said in a recent interview that President Donald Trump “represents a much bigger threat” beyond his proposal to impose tariffs on French wine.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg criticized President Donald Trump’s use of tariffs in his trade fight with China, but he admitted he would also use tariffs as leverage to negotiate a deal.

Elizabeth Warren embraced the idea that the U.S. should limit access to our markets and defend American interests in trade deals

Democrats attacked President Donald Trump’s trade policies on Thursday night while offering no specific alternatives.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday evening that he would delay proposed tariffs on China in October, as a positive gesture to Vice Premier Liu He.

The biggest surprise: prices of materials for consumer goods are falling and business margins are improving.

Manufacturing job openings jumped to 522,000 from 515,000 in the prior month, the Department of Labor said Tuesday.

The last round of face-to-face talks escalated trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

“They’re warriors. They also know we have to do this on China, we can’t take this on,” Trump said. “Our farmers will be helped.”

U.S. imports of advanced technology goods from China fell by nearly $20 billion in the first seven months of 2019.

More than two-in-three American voters say it is “necessary” for President Trump to fight China on trade that has, for years, resulted in mass layoffs of U.S. workers and enabled a rise in Chinese exports.

Chinese imports of U.S. cars rose after retaliatory tariffs were imposed last year, likely because the tariffs served as free ads.

New orders, employment, and production all declined as trade and global economic headwinds produced the worst reading since 2016.

Leading 2020 Democrat presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden is declaring himself a “champion” for America’s union workers after tirelessly supporting and defending free trade deals that made it easier for corporations to offshore union workers’ jobs.

“The reason [Donald Trump] is able to take on China directly now is because our economy is so good based on all of the policies that he has enacted,” said Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley in a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Multinational corporation Volvo is opening a new factory in China this week under its Polestar electric vehicle brand with plans to sell the product to American consumers.

Foreign policy experts say that President Donald Trump is right to play hardball in the ongoing trade negotiations with China, despite critics’ assertions that his actions are doing more harm than good.

President Donald Trump said that the U.S. had reached a trade deal with Japan that would involve “billions and billions” of dollars of trade between the two nations.

President Donald Trump announced a new trade deal in principal with Japan on Sunday, during the G7 summit of world leaders in France.

President Donald Trump admitted Sunday he had “second thoughts” about escalating the trade fight with China, but reaffirmed his position that it was the right thing to do.

Applying tariffs to China’s exports is “key to bringing China to heel” and achieving U.S. victory in a trade war, determined Steven Mosher.

“China is not safe for foreigners,” warned Gordon Chang, “especially for Americans and for people who are Canadians [or] British.”

Trump’s tariffs drive a U.S-China “decoupling,” said Gordon Chang, as major U.S. companies move parts of their supply chains out of China.

(AFP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and EU leaders exchanged trade war threats Saturday as they arrived in France for a G7 summit of wealthy democracies overshadowed by trans-Atlantic tensions before it had even begun.

During Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told host Martha MacCallum the United States had a good hand when it came to engaging China in a trade dispute.

“As President, I can no longer allow this to happen! In the spirit of achieving Fair Trade, we must Balance this very unfair trading Relationship,” Trump wrote.

The editor of China’s state-run Global Times responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s “order” for American companies to “immediately start looking for an alternative to China” on Friday by promising the U.S. side of the trade war will “feel the pain” from Chinese retaliation.

Trump signals a big escalation in the trade war after China announces retaliatory tariffs.

President Donald Trump continued his criticism of the Federal Reserve on Friday after Chairman Jerome Powell spoke about monetary policy in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

President Donald Trump again urged the Federal Reserve to act on Friday after China announced new tariffs on $75 billion of United States products.

In a surprise move, China said on Friday that it would raise tariffs on U.S. products on September 1 and December 15.

During an appearance on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Thursday, Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) urged President Donald Trump to make finding a solution to trade disputes a priority regarding his administration’s economic policy.

United States Steel Corp is planning to lay off nearly 200 American workers at its Great Lakes, Michigan plant while it halts production for at least six months.

The pro-mass immigration Koch brothers, mega-donors to the GOP establishment, helped market endless free trade policies to Democrat politicians, a new book details.

President Trump’s chief trade adviser Peter Navarro hit back at the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, saying they “never saw an American job” they “didn’t want to offshore.”

Nearly half of manufacturers said tariffs had no effect on selling prices. Another 10 percent said there was a downward effect.