Tag: WTO

Kevin Hassett raises the idea of throwing China out of the World Trade Organization.

Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach says the “future of the Republican Party” is President Trump’s pro-American worker, fair trade, and immigration agenda.

The story of Danville is one echoed in countless communities across the country, a gutted middle class left for dead in the wake of sweeping international trade deals in Washington, applauded by liberal economists and a lockstep media portraying such policies as inevitable, ultimately good, and a win for the American consumer–a narrative usually coupled with condescending and disdainful attitudes toward displaced workers for a perceived inability to sprint ahead with the times.

President Donald Trump issued words of warning for the World Trade Organization on Monday, calling on it to start treating the United States “properly” or the U.S. will take action.

Canada retaliated Sunday for U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum by inaugurating tariffs on $12.6 billion in U.S. goods.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer laid out a reasoned rebuke this week of countries claiming a World Trade Organization (WTO) basis for retaliating against the United States’ new national security-based tariffs.

“He’s [threatened to withdraw] 100 times. It would totally [screw] us as a country,” a source told Axios.

Brexit secretary David Davis has thrown the Prime Minister’s favoured ‘customs partnership’ into doubt, claiming it could, in fact, be illegal according to international law, as he backs a clean Brexit instead.

President Donald Trump emphasized the importance of “reciprocal” trade as he signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday to protect the United States from China’s economic aggression and theft of intellectual property.

The battle to decide the shape of global trade is heating up as Canada files a wide-ranging complaint against Trump’s trade sanctions.

Peter Sutherland, 71, was a key player with a host of globalist bodies and multinational corporations, including the European Commission, the World Trade Organisation, and Goldman Sachs International.

The top U.S. trade official attacked Chinese mercantilism and abuse of the WTO courts at a trade meeting in Argentina.

The Japanese ambassador to the United Kingdom slapped down premature celebrations of a Japan/EU trade deal, as Hungary admits it is the EU which stands to lose if it does not make a deal with Britain.

American businesses can run up against walls when trying to sell goods and services to foreign governments, which often prevent businesses from outside their own countries from taking part in government contracts, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. By contrast, the U.S. government is far more open to allowing foreign businesses to receive government contracts.

Contents: Malaysia’s relations with North Korea continue rapid deterioration; China promises retaliation over surprise deployment of THAAD in South Korea; South Korea threatens to sue China in World Trade Organization (WTO)

The European Union (EU) is laying the groundwork for a legal challenge against U.S. plans to impose a border tax, in what could be the biggest case in the World Trade Organization’s history.

A new study by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has found that California lost a net 589,100 jobs from 2001 to 2015, after China entered the World Trade Organization.

China is reacting angrily following news that President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Peter Navarro, author of the book and film Death by China, to head the new White House National Trade Council.

LONDON (AFP) – Britain is beginning work on becoming an independent member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after Brexit, using the EU’s current terms as the template, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said Monday.

Some 6,666 U.S workers could find themselves out of work, thanks to Germany’s Bayer agreeing to buy Monsanto, the American high-tech genetically modified seed and fertilizer company, for $66 billion.

A leading voice for Texas agriculture producers is making a familiar case against one of the conservative movement’s foremost think tanks.

American agriculture is a perpetual crisis of farmers and ranchers fighting forces too big to fight alone.

A historic agriculture crisis requires debt acceleration, price drops and misguided federal policy. When it comes to naming misguided policy, it doesn’t take farmers long — especially cotton farmers — to cite “that damned Brazil deal.”

Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s flip-flopping position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is at the center of a new attack ad from the Republican National Committee (RNC) as Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump criticized Clinton for a persistent legacy of troubled trade deals in a Tuesday policy speech.

Conspiracy theorists claim the Bilderberg Group is a cabal of 130 of the world’s most powerful public and private crony leaders plotting for global domination, but this year’s meeting is all about leaders trying to save globalism.

New winners and new losers are being created as intelligent robots and 3-D printers shrink the payoff from international trade and global outsourcing.

China’s President Xi Jinping will sign an agreement to open up China’s rice market to U.S. exports as part of his economic charm offensive this week, after signing a $38 billion aircraft deal with Boeing in Seattle.

SAN DIEGO, California — Urgent calls went out to the community of Ché Café advocates in San Diego to protest and occupy the space that the University of California San Diego (UCSD) was reportedly set to evict from the venue early Tuesday morning.