Trade Deal

The United States on Monday urged the European Union to rethink its approach to digital regulation if it wants a deal to lower painful US tariffs on the bloc’s steel exports.

President Donald Trump announced a series of breakthrough reciprocal trade deals on Thursday with the U.S.-friendly Latin American countries of El Salvador, Argentina, Ecuador, and Guatemala.

Mexico’s President claimed she was outraged after the U.S. Department of Transportation announced a series of America First measures that included cancelling 13 routes to and from an airport in Mexico City.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday confirmed that dictator Xi Jinping will meet with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in South Korea on Thursday.

Chinese state media ran a few victory laps on Sunday and Monday over news that U.S. and Chinese negotiators reached a provisional trade agreement after two days of talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

President Donald Trump told leaders at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Malaysia on Sunday that he is “on a mission of friendship and goodwill and to deepen our ties of commerce” during his trip to Asia this week.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had a jocular visit with President Donald Trump, but came away empty-handed on trade.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave an address to the nation on Sunday in which he told his citizens to stop using “foreign made” products.

The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Tuesday that trade discussions with a U.S. delegation to New Delhi were “positive” and “forward-looking.”

British Ambassador to the United States Lord Peter Mandelson told Breitbart News exclusively that the United Kingdom is very much looking forward to hosting U.S. President Donald Trump at Windsor Castle for a historic second state visit for Trump later this month, and that King Charles “is going to roll out the red carpet” for the leader of the United States.

The headlines have lately been filled with stories of rising tension between the U.S. and India, sparked by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his insistence on India cutting back its purchases of Russian oil, but Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal was upbeat on Tuesday about the prospects of signing a trade deal by November.

The head of the European Parliament’s trade committee said Wednesday he has “doubts” about aspects of the EU’s trade deal with the Trump administration and predicted the deal could be amended during the legislative approval process.

Economic analysts predicted this week that the money India saved by importing huge amounts of discounted Russian oil will be more than wiped out by President Donald Trump’s punitive tariff increase, which took effect on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump raised concerns Monday about ongoing political upheaval in South Korea, describing the situation as resembling a “purge or revolution” hours before his scheduled meeting with the country’s new president at the White House.

Multiple postal services around Europe announced Saturday that they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi revealed on Monday that he received a phone call from his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, updating him on the results of the latter’s in-person meeting with President Donald Trump last week.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva claimed on Thursday evening that President Donald Trump “lied” about Brazil being a poor trading partner and asserted that the South American country will not bow down to the U.S. government.

The USA Pavilion at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, set the stage for a trade deal that was agreed upon just days after it hosted a delegation of cabinet officials sent by President Donald Trump.

Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad claimed on Monday that alleged “far-right forces” operating with the White House forced the cancellation of a meeting he had scheduled with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone conversation on Monday with his Indian counterpart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in which he reinforced President Donald Trump’s position that New Delhi must cut off its purchases of Russian oil.

India appears to have taken one of its first concrete retaliatory actions against President Donald Trump’s tariffs, as three Indian officials told Reuters on Friday that arms purchases from the United States have been put on hold, and a planned visit by Defense Minister Rajnath Singh to Washington has been canceled.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told reporters in remarks on Tuesday that he had no intention of negotiating on trade with President Donald Trump following the imposition of a 50-percent tariff on his country, opting to contact Chinese communist dictator Xi Jinping instead.

A prospective deal on Brazil’s critical and rare earth minerals could be included in ongoing tariff negotiations with the United States, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Monday.

India’s political opposition is furious with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to secure a trade deal with the United States.

President Donald Trump announced a “full and complete trade deal” with South Korea on Thursday evening — an agreement committing $350 billion in investment into the United States and significantly eroding Korean automaker advantages in the U.S. market.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will not behave like his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro and “wag his tail” or say “I love you” to Washington in prospective U.S.-Brazil tariff talks, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Tuesday.

MAIDENS, South Ayrshire, Scotland — U.S. President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively Monday that Chinese president Xi Jinping has been clamoring for a meeting in-person with him soon, and that may happen as soon as sometime this year, either in China or at the White House in the United States.

Trade officials from the United States and China want to extend the current “tariff truce,” provided President Donald Trump approves.

China’s mission to the European Union (EU) expressed outrage on Monday over last week’s visit to Taiwan by several EU lawmakers.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney described his country’s trade negotiations with the United States as “intense” and “complex” on Monday, failing to express confidence that the parties would meet the August 1 deadline for an agreement to prevent Washington from imposing a 35-percent tariff on Canadian goods.

MAIDENS, South Ayrshire, Scotland — President Donald Trump told Breitbart News that the unconditional ceasefire he negotiated between Thailand and Cambodia while here in Scotland will save millions of lives in the two southeast Asian nations.

The trade deal Donald Trump announced Sunday with the European Union is not just the death certificate of the old regime. It is also the birth certificate of a new era in international trade.

The far-left Axios seems pretty upset over President Trump’s triumphant trade deal with the European Union.

In the hours following the Sunday announcement of the landmark trade deal agreed to by the United States and the European Union, a stinging reality began to sink in across the Old Continent: Brussels blinked, and the EU leadership had been utterly routed by President Donald Trump and his White House.