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U.K. admits trade deals with Japan and South Korea are unlikely before brexit
Business Secretary Greg Clark said the U.K. isn't likely to reach agreements with Japan and South Korea to roll over existing trade deals before Britain's scheduled departure from the European Union on March 29. Britain benefits from about 40 free-trade agreements with 70 nations through ...
Despite President Donald Trump's tough talk on trade, his administration has granted hundreds of companies permission to import millions of tons of steel made in China, Japan and other countries without paying the hefty tariff he put in place to protect U.S. manufacturers and ...
U.S.-China trade talks to resume next week as Trump hints at extension
The United States and China will resume trade talks next week in Washington with time running short to ease their bruising trade war, but U.S. President Donald Trump repeated on Friday that he may extend a March 1 deadline for a deal and keep ...
Abe and Austria's Sebastian Kurz agree to expand tourism and economic cooperation
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz agreed Friday to expand tourism cooperation, with Kurz welcoming the start of daily direct flights between Tokyo and Vienna from this weekend. Abe and Kurz also agreed in Tokyo to promote trade between the two countries, ...
While Chinese behavior needs to change, unilateral action by Washington is not the way to achieve that objective.
A U.S. Commerce Department report has concluded that American auto imports threaten national security, setting the stage for possible tariffs by the White House, two people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The investigation, ordered by President Donald Trump in May, is "positive" with respect ...
Lack of Brexit deal leaves exporters to Asia in limbo
Business is brisk at Nim's Fruit Crisps. Pineapples are imported from Costa Rica, kiwis from Italy and oranges and lemons from Spain. They're then turned into healthy snacks for export to Israel, South Africa, Hong Kong and elsewhere. You wouldn't know that the company in ...
Trump wants to meet with Xi 'very soon' over trade war, adviser says
The Trump administration said the U.S. president still wants to meet China's Xi Jinping in an effort to end the trade war, a sign of optimism as negotiators from the world's two biggest economies start their latest round of talks this week. "He wants to ...
The surprising shift in perceptions of the U.S. under Trump was “the largest change in sentiment among the global threats tracked.”
EU launches process to suspend Cambodia trade privileges over rights abuses
The EU launched a process on Monday that could temporarily strip Cambodia of its valuable trade privileges with the bloc over "serious and systematic" rights abuses. Brussels has repeatedly warned Cambodia it risks losing the highly preferential tariff arrangement it enjoys, known as "everything but ...
Venezuela's most successful financial operations in recent years have not taken place on Wall Street, but in primitive gold-mining camps in the nation's southern reaches. With the country's economy in meltdown, an estimated 300,000 fortune hunters have descended on this mineral-rich jungle area to earn ...
