Trade

Beltway Confidential

China’s Hong Kong crackdown threatens Trump’s trade balancing act

Daniel DePetris · May 22, 2020 6:32 pm

A voter takes advantage of the hand sanitizer to "clean up" after voting in the presidential party primary in Ridgeland, Miss., Tuesday, March 10, 2020. Polling locations are providing hand sanitizers for voters to use as a cautionary measure in light of the coronavirus health concern nationwide.

‘In-demand items’: Police find meth smuggled in hand sanitizer bottles

Zach Halaschak · May 22, 2020 3:34 pm

US and allies mull alliance to move business from China to nations with shared values

Joel Gehrke · May 20, 2020 4:00 am

Trump team hears echoes of 2016 victory emanating from China

Rob Crilly · May 19, 2020 4:00 am

‘A quality problem’: EU suspends delivery of millions of Chinese-made masks

Zach Halaschak · May 15, 2020 4:28 pm

Beltway Confidential

On tariffs, Trump fibs, fudges facts, and frustrates farmers

Quin Hillyer · May 15, 2020 4:25 pm

Roberto Azevedo, Director General of the World Trade Organization, WTO, attends a session at annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019.

World Trade Organization chief to step down from post a year early

Mica Soellner · May 14, 2020 5:32 pm

‘You’d save $500 billion’: Trump threatens to cut off trade with China

Nihal Krishan · May 14, 2020 11:27 am

Beltway Confidential

Our overcentralized food supply chain is breaking down

Levi Russell · May 9, 2020 10:00 am

In this April 4, 2019, file photo, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo., listens to witnesses during the Committee's hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

‘Enabled the rise of China’: Josh Hawley calls for withdrawing US from World Trade Organization

Mica Soellner · May 8, 2020 8:32 pm

Cindy Steinberg, National Director of Policy and Advocacy for U.S. Pain Foundation, recovering from back pain after a workplace accident, testifies on "Managing Pain During the Opioid Crisis" before a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, in Washington.

Bipartisan group of lawmakers press Trump to issue executive order moving drug manufacturing out of China

Zach Halaschak · May 8, 2020 5:59 pm

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Trump

White House sees British trade talks as ‘chance to cement anti-China alliance’

Rob Crilly · May 5, 2020 4:00 am