TRADE WARS

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China warns US against tariffs as trade talks end
Jun 03, 2018 (AFP)
The third round of trade talks between the world's two largest economies appeared to fall short of bridging the gap between Beijing and Washington, which are at...
EU joins global battle against Trump tariff onslaught
Jun 02, 2018 (AFP)
Meanwhile in Washington, US President Donald Trump floated the possibility of scrapping the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement in favor of separate...
Escalating trade battle embroils G7 finance meet
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
Long a bastion of multilateralism, the Group of Seven ministerial in a Canadian mountain resort will serve as the latest battleground for the discord now at the...
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...
Eurozone inflation leaps higher delivering 'headache' to ECB
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The EU's statistics authority, Eurostat, said inflation in the eurozone jumped to 1.9 percent in May, a sharp pick-up from the 1.2 percent recorded in April. Th...
China factory activity rises at fastest pace in eight months
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The purchasing managers index came in at 51.9, up from 51.4 last month, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, in line with a Bloomberg News survey. The ...
Walmart goes upscale with personal shopper service
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
The new $50 per month service called Jetblack is launching in New York, offering "curated shopping recommendations" using both artificial intelligence and profe...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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