U.S. and China Agree to Walk Back Tensions
The United States and China have agreed to a “framework” that is intended to ease economic tension and extend a trade truce that the world’s two largest economies reached last month,…
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U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Builds on Close Ties but Leaves Some Tariffs in Place
President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States intended to sign a trade deal with Britain that would bring the two nations closer and roll back some of the punishing tariffs…
U.S. and Britain Hail Trade Agreement but Leave Details to Be Settled
President Trump said Britain had agreed to increase market access for billions of dollars of American exports, including beef, ethanol and other farm products under a new trade deal — but…
Trump Administration to Announce Trade Deal With Britain
For Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, the trade deal would offer vindication for his assiduous cultivation of Mr. Trump. During his visit to the Oval Office in February, Mr. Starmer…
China Is Likely to Play Hardball in U.S. Tariff Talks
By agreeing to meet with the Trump administration to discuss trade, China is seeking to cast itself as the responsible one in a bruising superpower competition that has roiled the global…
Trump Officials to Meet With Chinese Counterparts Amid Trade Standoff
Top officials from the Trump administration will meet with their Chinese counterparts in Switzerland this week, the first formal meeting about trade between the United States and China…
How Trump’s Closing a Tariff Loophole Will Hurt UPS and FedEx
Less than a year ago, executives from FedEx and UPS were talking about how they were handling a flood of packages from China to American consumers. “Explosive” is how Carol Tomé, UPS’s…
Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump
A contest of sorts has played out across Europe, the United States and the Middle East in recent days as President Trump’s two older sons have pursued a blitz of family moneymaking…
A Tidal Wave of Change Is Headed for the U.S. Economy
When the Covid pandemic hit, factories in China shut down and global shipping traffic slowed. Within a matter of a few weeks, products began disappearing from U.S. store shelves and…
U.S. and China Dig In on Trade War, With No Plans for Formal Talks
As trade tensions flared between the world’s largest economies, communication between the United States and China has been so shaky that the two superpowers cannot even agree on whether…
U.S. Payoff for Ukraine Minerals Deal Faces Many Hurdles
Now that the United States has secured a deal to share the rights to Ukraine’s mineral reserves — including elements crucial for a range of high-tech applications, from powering electric…
White House-Amazon Spat Culminates in Trump Calling Bezos ‘Very Nice’
President Trump’s 100th day in office started with what seemed to be a fresh and fast-escalating spat between the White House and Amazon. Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary,…
Are Shein and Temu Prices Going Up? What to Know as Trump Ends De Minimis Tariff Loophole
A loophole that has allowed American shoppers to buy lots of cheap goods from mainland China and Hong Kong without paying tariffs and filling customs forms is closing on Friday. Prices…
U.S. Gas Industry Pushes Back on Trump Shipbuilding Rules
Another rift has opened between the U.S. oil and gas industry and President Trump, this time over new rules designed to encourage domestic shipbuilding and undermine China’s maritime…
Trump Claims He’s Negotiating With China on Trade. China Says Otherwise.
President Trump, whose trade war with China has rattled financial markets and threatened to disrupt huge swaths of trade, suggested on Friday that he had been in touch with Xi Jinping,…
Stocks Extend Gains as Investors Weigh Fed Rates and Tariff Talk
Stocks rose on Thursday, marking a third consecutive daily rally as investors hope for an easing of President Trump’s trade wars and weigh comments from a Federal Reserve official on…