Tag: Trade

In this Feb. 26, 2019 photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Grassley gains support of key senators for bid to rein in Trump tariff powers

Sean Higgins · March 27, 2019 7:36 pm

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee walks to chair a hearing on drug prices, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Chuck Grassley says Trump won’t lift steel and aluminum tariffs

Colin Wilhelm, Sean Higgins · March 27, 2019 6:53 pm

President Trump on Wednesday seemed to rule out the possibility of negotiating some kind of truce with North Korea, just days after his secretary of state suggested that strategy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s weakening of North Korea sanctions is even worse than it seems

Erin Dunne · March 27, 2019 4:29 pm

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif. speaks during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on possible tariffs and the effect on the U.S. economy and jobs, Thursday, April 12, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

US-China trade negotiators: Bootleggers and Baptists ride again

Bruce Yandle · March 27, 2019 1:47 pm

President Trump, center, sits between Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto after they signed a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Union leaders reject pulling out of NAFTA

Sean Higgins · March 26, 2019 8:21 pm

President Donald Trump speaks on trade at Granite City Works Steel Coil Warehouse, Thursday, July 26, 2018, Granite City, Ill.

Court rejects challenge to Trump’s steel tariffs

Sean Higgins · March 25, 2019 5:41 pm

Placards placed by anti-Brexit supporters stand opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, Monday, March 18, 2019.

Brexit is, at bottom, about self-rule

Washington Examiner · March 24, 2019 4:00 am

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, center, shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, right, after a group photo at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. At left is U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Mnuchin, Lighthizer heading China for more trade talks, White House says

Melissa Quinn · March 23, 2019 7:17 pm

The agreement was signed in the presence of President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping during his state visit to China on Thursday, according to the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, one of the party's to the deal along with the State of Alaska. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump hints at possible compromise in Chinese tariffs

Sean Higgins · March 23, 2019 12:44 am

A worker performs final inspections on a vehicle at the Nissan Motor Co. manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017. Nissan Motor Co. is scheduled to release earnings figures on November 7.

Beltway Confidential

Trump doesn’t want a deal on cars. He wants more tariffs

Erin Dunne · March 23, 2019 12:06 am

Stephen Moore, an economic adviser to Trump, has so far not taken a role in the upcoming administration. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Trump Fed pick Stephen Moore also a critic of his tariff policy

Sean Higgins · March 22, 2019 10:23 pm

President Donald Trump talks with reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 22, 2019, in Washington.

Trump says he won’t agree to deal with EU for zero auto tariffs

Sean Higgins · March 22, 2019 7:04 pm