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'Big Freeze': Russian counter-sanctions draft may put Boeing 'on hold'
Apr 17, 2018 (Sputnik)
The bill, which was drafted in response to the new round of US sanctions announced last week, proposes a wide range of restrictions on the import of US goods an...
IMF sees emerging Asia as top global growth engine
Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)
The International Monetary Fund's latest quarterly World Economic Outlook forecasts global growth of 3.9 percent this year as the world economy hums along and n...
China growth beats forecasts in face of trade row, financial risk
Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)
While acknowledging the potential negative impact of a US trade war officials on Tuesday warned the country faced greater downside risk at home, citing the need...
China's former insurance regulator charged with bribery
Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)
Xiang Junbo, 61, took advantage of his position to amass "an enormous amount of assets" first as a deputy governor of the central bank, then as head of the stat...
China's economy slows in first quarter: AFP survey
Apr 15, 2018 (AFP)
The world's second largest economy is expected to have grown 6.7 percent in the January to March period, down from 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter of last yea...
Chinese urged to boycott US firms, but Big Mac fans unconvinced
Apr 14, 2018 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese goods have roused nationalist sentiment in the world's second largest economy, where consumers have a long track ...
Trump zig-zags on trade jarring but could get results, experts say
Apr 14, 2018 (AFP)
But trade experts concede the pressure on China to reform could actually work, especially as it is in Beijing's own interests to make the reforms the US is dema...
Trump considers re-joining Pacific trade pact he once spurned
Apr 13, 2018 (AFP)
"Would only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama," he wrote in a late night tweet. "We already have BILATERAL dea...
US, China talking on trade frictions, says OECD boss
Apr 13, 2018 (AFP)
Angel Gurria said Chinese officials had told him this week that they were talking to their US counterparts, despite official denials. "Everybody is very alarmed...
China's trade surplus with US surges, calls for patience
Apr 13, 2018 (AFP)
Fears of a trade war have been rumbling since last month as President Donald Trump has threatened a series of tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chin...
China says Xi pledges unrelated to US trade spat
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
Xi on Tuesday vowed ease tariffs and open the economy up more in what was seen as a conciliatory gesture to temper fears of a US trade war after Donald Trump la...
IMF's Lagarde: Trade protectionism threatens economic growth
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
In a less than thinly-veiled warning to US President Donald Trump, who has locked horns with China on trade, the head of the IMF said countries should open trad...
Markets 'overreacting' to trade war rhetoric: UN official
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
Arancha Gonzalez, who heads the International Trade Center (ITC), told reporters that traders have proven too sensitive in the face of "big headline announcemen...
China's US debt holdings: Double-edged sword in trade war
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
Donald Trump last month sparked fears of a potentially destabilising stand-off between the world's top two economies after threatening tariffs on Chinese import...
ADB sees 6% Asia growth but warns on risks from trade tensions
Apr 11, 2018 (AFP)
Its flagship Asian Development Outlook on Wednesday also flagged the impact of technological advancements on jobs in the region, which it said could worsen alre...
China challenges US over steel, aluminium tariffs at WTO
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
China's representative to the world trade body has requested "consultations" with Washington over its decision to impose "additional ad valorem rate of duty on ...
IMF warns of heightened credit risk in easy-money era
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
The riskiness of credit globally, which tumbled after the crisis, rebounded to its historic norm in 2016, the last year of available data, said the report. "As ...
Trump praises Xi's 'kind words' in fresh sign of trade detente
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
Still, the White House also admonished China to take concrete action on US complaints about unfair trade practices. Xi earlier Tuesday pledged to open Chinese m...
Xi vows to further open China economy as US trade spat simmers
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
Xi's remarks follow weeks of tit-for-tat tariffs and mutual threats of more levies on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of products between Beijing and Wash...
NAFTA deal 'fairly close,' Trump says
Apr 09, 2018 (AFP)
Officials in Washington and Mexico City have played down expectations a deal could be unveiled later this week when representatives of the US, Canada and Mexico...
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