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It has been several months now since President Trump began rolling out the flurry of trade actions that have come to define his America First Trade Policy, which culminated to the so-called Liberation Day reciprocal tariffs. ...more
On February 1, 2025, the Trump Administration announced that it would impose tariffs on imports of certain goods from Canada, Mexico and China, to be effective February 4, 2025. Although the Trump Administration reached...more
Businesses trading with key global partners will face an uneven landscape of responses to the announced tariffs. The Trump administration announced new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China on February 1,...more
UPDATE: President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau have paused tariffs for at least 30 days. Canada will implement its $1.3 Billion Border plan, make new commitments to appoint a Fentanyl Czar, list cartels as terrorists,...more
President-Elect Donald Trump on Nov. 25, 2024, announced his intention to impose additional 10 percent tariffs on China, as well as additional 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada. He has not yet indicated which authority...more
On November 25, President-elect Trump announced on social media that on January 20, his first day in office, his administration will impose new tariffs on all imports from China, Mexico, and Canada. In two separate messages,...more
The 2nd Trump Administration will mean significant change in foreign policy, most especially the importance of ending the Russia-Ukraine war, increased focus on Iran and its proxies, and aggressive use of trade policies and...more
On April 19, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the rollout of a 90-day duty deferral program for importers experiencing significant financial hardship. The temporary relief is limited in scope because it does...more
On January 15, 2020, the U.S. and China signed Phase One of the Economic and Trade Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the People’s Republic of China (the “U.S.-China Trade...more
On 15 January 2020, President Donald J. Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed a “Phase One” Agreement between the United States and China, a truce halting the escalating trade tensions between the two global trading...more
Facebook wages a war on misinformation. On Monday, Facebook announced it will start removing videos altered by artificial intelligence that are likely to mislead people into thinking that a subject of the video made...more
The US and China have reportedly reached an initial agreement on the “final terms of a phase one trade deal, moving both countries closer to signing a pact that” the White House originally announced in October and averting...more
U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators are “laying the groundwork for a delay of a fresh round of tariffs set to kick in on Dec. 15” as the countries continue to work through how a Chinese promise to make huge ag purchases from...more
At a NATO meeting on Tuesday, December 3, 2019, President Trump declared that he was prepared to wait to negotiate a trade agreement with China until after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, dashing hopes that “phase one”...more
The Situation: Recent reports indicate that the United States and China may soon reach an initial, limited trade deal that could involve the United States phasing out some existing tariffs on Chinese-origin goods while...more
The U.S. and China have tentatively [maybe?] agreed that a first phase of a trade agreement “would roll back a portion of the tariffs placed on each other’s products, a significant step toward defusing tensions between the...more
Senior negotiators from the U.S. and China will officially resume trade negotiations today, “with higher tariffs looming if [they] fail to break a five-month stalemate.” The U.S.’s moves this week to blacklist 28 Chinese tech...more
The trade relationship between the United States and China has continued to be difficult, especially after both countries announced significant new tariffs on each other’s goods in August 2019. Nonetheless, the relationship...more
The ECB was even more aggressive than expected in its moves to “head off a downturn before it gained momentum,” cutting a key interest rate and reviving “a money-printing program.” At the same time, the central bank “issued...more
Consumer companies on both sides of the Pacific are feeling the impact of the U.S.-China trade war. Targeted by the retaliatory tariffs imposed by both governments and already feeling price pressure as consumer confidence has...more
On August 23, the tariff dispute between the U.S. and China escalated further when President Trump sent a series of tweets admonishing China for its "politically motivated" retaliatory tariffs. ...more
On August 23, 2019, China's State Council Tariff Commission (SCTC) announced that China will impose additional tariffs ranging from five percent to 10 percent on approximately US$75 billion in annual imports from the United...more
On Friday, August 23, the Trump Administration announced an increase in Section 301 tariffs following China’s announcement of retaliatory tariffs targeting $75 billion of US goods. The announcement, which came by way of...more
Following on the heels of U.S. trade negotiators’ return from China, on 1 August, President Trump abruptly announced via Twitter an “additional Tariff of 10 percent on the remaining 300 Billion Dollars of goods and products...more
Last week’s wild economic ride combined with China’s currency-devaluing response (and, arguably, months more of trade-war-driven global uncertainty) led to the worst day on Wall Street since last December, with the Dow...more