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TRADE

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 26, 2018
Harley hitting the road is just the start
Trump's blunt trade policies will have painful side effects for U.S. manufacturers and their operations at home.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2018
Dissent surfaces as China begins to question its readiness for trade war with U.S.
Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to match U.S. President Donald Trump blow for blow in any trade war. Now as one gets closer, some in Beijing are starting to openly wonder whether China is ready for the fight — an unusually direct challenge to the leadership of the world's second-largest economy....
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 26, 2018
Trump blasts Harley plan to shift U.S. production to avoid EU tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday slammed Harley-Davidson Inc. after the motorcycle maker said it would move production for European customers overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs that could cost it up to $100 million per year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 26, 2018
Wall Street plunges amid escalating trade row
U.S. stocks sank in a broad sell-off on Monday, with the S&P 500 dropping more than 1.5 percent and technology firms bearing the brunt of an escalating trade dispute between the United States and other leading economies.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 25, 2018
U.S. losing the trade war
The Trump administration is hurting its chances in a dispute with China by angering America's traditional trading allies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 25, 2018
As tariff deadlines loom, world watches U.S. and China to see who blinks first
The U.S. and China's high-stakes game of economic "chicken" is set to reach a critical juncture in the next two weeks, as the world's largest trading partners approach deadlines on tariffs and other barriers that may determine who blinks first.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 23, 2018
Trump tariff threat on European cars escalates global trade war
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a 20 percent tariff on cars imported from the European Union unless the bloc removes import duties and other barriers to U.S. goods, escalating a global trade war the EU warned could endanger $300 billion in commerce.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 22, 2018
Peace doesn't pay: How foreign companies have lost a fortune in North Korea
Months before the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in 2000, South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Inc. invested $730,000 in Pyongyang's top computer lab. North Korean programmers there would develop online chess games and food recipes for Samsung to sell outside the North.
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2018
Russia, in move likely to benefit a prominent oligarch, says it will levy duties on American goods in wake of U.S. tariffs
Russia said on Tuesday it would impose import duties on U.S. road-building machinery, a measure likely to help Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who was hit by U.S. sanctions and controls Russia's biggest maker of road-building equipment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jun 20, 2018
As Kim visits China, Xi flaunts trade bargaining chip
As if on cue, Kim Jong Un returned to Beijing on Tuesday in an illustration of how U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats against China could spiral into a broader conflict between the world's two largest economies.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2018
Stocks dive as Trump threatens almost all imports from China and Beijing fires back
China has underestimated President Donald Trump's resolve to move forward with tariffs unless Beijing changes its "predatory" trade practices, a top U.S. trade adviser said on Tuesday, in comments that diminished the chances of a negotiated settlement to a looming trade war between the world's economic...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 20, 2018
German president fears 'irreparable damage' to European-U.S. ties as Trump views world as boxing ring
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed concern on Tuesday that Europe's relations with the United States could suffer irreparable damage, and urged Washington not to view the world as a boxing ring "in which everyone fights everyone.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 19, 2018
A trade war will hit developing countries the hardest
The effects of a global trade war would be felt everywhere, but especially in the world's poorest countries.
BUSINESS
Jun 19, 2018
U.S. slaps over 167% in anti-dumping duties on China's aluminum sheet: trade group
The U.S. Commerce Department has determined that Chinese common alloy aluminum sheet products are being sold in the U.S. market at less than fair value and will be subject to preliminary anti-dumping duties of 167.16 percent, the Aluminum Association said on Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2018
A U.S-China trade war is just the start
Pre-eminence in future industries are the stakes as the world's largest and second largest economies square off.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 18, 2018
Japanese exports accelerated in May but surplus with U.S. shrank to smallest since 2013
Indicator rose at the fastest rate in four months thanks to increased shipments of cars, car parts and semiconductor equipment, a sign that global demand is gaining strength.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2018
Trump sets $50 billion in China tariffs with Beijing ready to strike back
U.S. President Donald Trump announced hefty tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports on Friday as Beijing threatened to respond in kind, in a move that looks set to ignite a trade war between the world's two largest economies.
BUSINESS
Jun 13, 2018
Trudeau safe for now amid Trump trade war threats but angry farmers loom
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing the threat of a trade war from U.S. President Donald Trump, has unanimous domestic support for now but to keep a firm hold on power must wring concessions from an unwilling powerful dairy lobby in order to mollify Washington.
BUSINESS
Jun 12, 2018
U.S. companies in Japan want Washington to focus trade talks on services, pharmaceuticals: ACCJ
U.S. companies already established in Japan want the Trump administration to focus more on service-sector trade than on market access for manufacturers, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami