China announced on Friday that it will impose a 34 percent tariff on all U.S. goods in retaliation for President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs on Wednesday. The Chinese tariff hike is scheduled to take effect on April 10.
The freedom afforded to the United Kingdom by its Brexit withdrawal from the European Union has been credited with helping the country avoid the worst of the Trump tariff actions.
Canada slapped 25 percent tariffs on about 1,800 American products in March, and will implement 4,400 more on April 2, the day President Donald Trump plans to announce higher tariffs against every country that taxes U.S. imports.
Britain’s government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid — or at least mitigate — more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump.
As long as our trading partners continue to use Value-Added Taxes (VATs) to their advantage, the United States must be willing to respond in kind with tariffs.
Indian government sources told Reuters on Tuesday that New Delhi is considering $23 billion in tariff reductions on U.S. imports to stave off President Donald Trump’s threatened reciprocal tariffs, which will affect at least $66 billion in Indian exports if they take effect on April 2.
Canada’s recently installed Prime Minister Mark Carney called on Sunday for a snap election to be held at the end of next month as he seeks to gain an election mandate to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump in the trade war.
British engineering giant Rolls-Royce is reportedly making preparations to increase manufacturing production in the United States to avoid tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump.
German luxury auto manufacturer Audi said it is considering moving car production to the United States to avoid tariffs from the Trump administration.
Canadian Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday claimed U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed the Liberal candidate for prime minister, Mark Carney, because he wants a “weak and conflicted” Canadian leader who would be “easier” to deal with.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday called for “pragmatism” to prevent an EU-US dispute over tariffs from escalating into a full-scale trade war, and expressed support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts for a ceasefire in Ukraine.
China’s NPC hopes to revive its moribund economy and win a trade war against the United States with artificial intelligence.
The European Union is reportedly seeking to put pressure specifically on Republican-controlled states as it enacts so-called retaliatory tariff measures on American businesses amid the trade war with the Trump administration.
America’s trade deficit with the European Union ballooned to over $215 billion last year as U.S. exports decreased and imports from the bloc increased, a trend that President Donald Trump seeks to reverse.
Canada’s Liberal Party looked set Sunday to choose a former central banker and political novice as its next leader, replacing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as it confronts threats from US President Donald Trump.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Wednesday announced a 7.5 percent increase in military spending for 2025, ostensibly due to increasing tensions with the United States and Taiwan.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins discussed tariffs and said the push “to bring our jobs back to America, to produce within our own country’s borders is really, really important.” And “one of the silver
China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) on Wednesday unveiled a 20-point “action plan” to “stabilize foreign investment” – a tacit acknowledgement that the Communist nation’s tottering economy desperately needs the return of foreign investors scared off by dictator Xi Jinping’s authoritarian tactics and unfair trade policies.
China’s ambassador to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Li Chenggang, told a closed-door meeting in Geneva on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s “tariff shocks” could trigger a worldwide recession.
The leftist British government is reportedly willing to walk back some of draconian online censorship rules to avoid falling into a trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump.
China’s retaliation against President Donald Trump’s tariffs went into effect on Monday, imposing levies of 10% to 15% on a range of key American goods, including liquefied natural gas (LNG), coal, agricultural equipment, and automotive products.
China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday rounded up ministers and business leaders to condemn President Donald Trump’s ten percent tariff on imports from China, which were scheduled to take effect on Tuesday.
David Eby, premier of British Columbia, suggested last week that Canadians might stop buying American alcohol if President Donald Trump follows through with his tariff threat against Canada.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma, once the richest man in China before he was ruined and exiled for daring to criticize the Chinese Communist Party, paid a visit to his company’s main campus in Hangzhou on Friday.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Sunday that India is not “nervous” about Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
China’s markets tumbled on Friday, dismayed by a disappointing stimulus package from Beijing and fear that President-elect Donald Trump will restore high tariffs on Chinese exports.
A coalition of families of people who have died from fentanyl are demanding that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) investigate China’s role in the American opioid crisis, and requesting that tariffs be enacted on the country to combat it.
EU countries gave definitive green light to hefty additional tariffs on electric cars made in China, despite strong opposition led by Germany.
Trump, in fact, won the trade war with China, leading to a Phase I trade deal that was only overshadowed by the coronavirus.
Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine ended their protest after reaching an agreement with their government.
EU officials have lashed out at plans aimed at pushing domestic manufacturing in the United States over accusations that it harms the bloc’s interests.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping met with various world leaders at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia on Tuesday, prominently including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia and President Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea.
A delegation of German MPs has sworn that they “stand by Taiwan” despite the fact that their left-wing Chancellor is allowing the sale of major infrastructure to Communist China.
Germany’s dependence on China — now its largest trading partner — makes it incredibly vulnerable to a future east-west trade war.
(AFP) – Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has threatened to block a free trade deal with Britain should the UK scrap some sections of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a controversial section of the Brexit agreement that has empowered the European Union to effectively divide the United Kingdom.
The European Union is reportedly threatening to target areas represented by government ministers and Brexiteers to pressure them not to scrap the Northern Ireland Protocol which gives it continuing power over the British province.
The British government has indicated that it may finally scrap the Northern Ireland which leaves the European Union in control of much trade and regulatory policy in the province, with or without the EU’s agreement.
Taiwan plans to invest $200 million in Lithuania, following increased hostilities between Lithuania and China.
Nigel Farage has called for the UK to suspend Brexit divorce payments to the EU if France fails to back down from trade war threats.
