TRADE WARS

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China lowers tariffs, rejects US trade war escalation
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The overture came two days after the White House said its planned trade sanctions against China were still in the works despite the announcement of a truce foll...
China slams US for 'sudden flip-flops' in trade policy
May 30, 2018 (AFP)
Ten days ago the White House announced a truce in trade hostilities with China, with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin saying that threatened tariffs on Chin...
OECD warns against 'escalation' in trade tensions
May 30, 2018 (AFP)
President Donald Trump announced the shock 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent duty on aluminium in March, sparking a global diplomatic tussle that sent ...
Panama-China to open trade talks
May 29, 2018 (AFP)
"The first round of negotiations will be in the month of July in Panama and then it will take the number of rounds it takes to negotiate an accord that is benef...
White House moves to finalize China trade sanctions
May 29, 2018 (AFP)
The White House said the planned sanctions announced in March, largely focused on China's theft of American intellectual property, were still in the works and d...
China denies setting target to cut US trade surplus
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
Officials from Beijing were reported to have offered to slash the country's huge surplus by $200 billion during high-level talks last week -- meeting a key Wash...
Australia's central bank chief warns over China debt risk
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
Total debt has ballooned in China from 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the late 1990s to about 260 percent, with authorities seeking to boost cre...
Macron in Russia for high-stakes talks with Putin
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
The trip is Macron's first to Russia as president and follows a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week. Europe and Moscow are making diplomatic over...
Macron presses tech giants on taxes, working conditions
May 23, 2018 (AFP)
Around 60 industry leaders, including Zuckerberg, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi and IBM chief Ginni Rometty travelled to Paris for talks with the French leader abo...
Merkel seeks united front with China amid Trump trade fears
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
Finding a common strategy to ward off a trade war and keep markets open will be Merkel's priority when she meets with President Xi Jinping, as Washington brandi...
EU seeks US trade detente after China reprieve
May 22, 2018 (AFP)
Europe was hit by the shock tariffs in March, part of the protectionist president's threat of an "America First" trade war with Washington's closest partners, i...
New Washington-Beijing trade 'consensus' resolves little: analysts
May 21, 2018 (AFP)
Both sides said Saturday they were committed to reducing the soaring US trade deficit with China, one of President Donald Trump's central demands. To get there,...
US, China back off on tariffs, easing trade tensions
May 20, 2018 (AFP)
"We have made very meaningful progress and we agreed on a framework," Mnuchin told Fox News Sunday. "So right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold whil...
Trump dampens chances of trade deal with China
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
Trump met with a Chinese delegation headed by Vice Premier Liu He on Thursday as talks aimed at easing frictions between the economic powers got underway. "The ...
Rare bottles of whisky fetch record $1m each at Hong Kong auction
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
One bottle, bearing a label designed by British pop artist Peter Blake -- who helped create the sleeve of The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club B...
Beijing hails Portugal's openness to Chinese investment
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking to reporters alongside his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva, Wang Yi praised Portugal's "open" attitude to foreign investment, adding that h...
China expected to allow European beef 'in near future': EU
May 18, 2018 (AFP)
China had banned imports of European and then US beef due to cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow disease". The European Union has been ...
Mnuchin to lead US in trade talks with China
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
"These meetings are a continuation of the talks held in Beijing two weeks ago and will focus on rebalancing the United States-China bilateral economic relations...
China spots problems with US cars, pork as trade talks loom
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
The world's two largest economies are locked in a tense standoff with tariff threats hanging over billions of dollars of goods many fear could spark a damaging ...
US's Mnuchin to lead trade talks with China
May 16, 2018 (AFP)
"These meetings are a continuation of the talks held in Beijing two weeks ago and will focus on rebalancing the United States-China bilateral economic relations...
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