TRADE WARS - AFRICA DAILY

China manufacturing activity accelerates in March

Mar 31, 2018 (AFP)

The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which is published by the National Bureau of Statistics, rose to 51.5 in March compared with 50.3 in February and 51.3 in ...

Switzerland at epicentre of cryptocurrency revolution

Mar 29, 2018 (AFP)

The country's largest city, Zurich, set up its first bitcoin ATM four years ago, while the Swiss national rail company has since 2016 provided the possibility o...

Will the WTO survive Trump?

Mar 29, 2018 (AFP)

Now it's time to add the World Trade Organization to the list. The early signs of the US president's intentions towards the Geneva-based trade body all pointed ...

Trudeau to Trump: Canada will block backdoor steel shipments

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

The prime minster, according to a Canadian readout of the conversation released on Tuesday, "raised the strong measures Canada is taking to address unfair trade...

China's big banks escape profit doldrums

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world's biggest lender in terms of total assets, said full-year profit grew 2.8 percent to 286.05 billio...

Trump's tough trade moves could backfire in Trump country

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

After the president this month unveiled tariffs on scores of billions of dollars in global steel and aluminum imports as well as Chinese technological goods, ma...

Trump discusses China trade with Merkel, Macron: White House

Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)

The move comes as Washington and the European Union are at loggerheads over Trump's decision earlier this month to slap steep tariffs on steel and aluminum impo...

Quiet business negotiations between China, US: report

Mar 26, 2018 (AFP)

News of the talks follow days rife with tension, raising the specter of a trade war between the world's top economies. The daily paper said the discussions -- l...

US unafraid of trade war, will proceed with China tariffs: Mnuchin

Mar 25, 2018 (AFP)

Speaking on "Fox News Sunday," Mnuchin said unless a deal is reached with China, Trump will implement the tariffs targeting sectors in which Washington says Bei...

Tough talk on global trade escalates as Trump claims results

Mar 24, 2018 (AFP)

In his latest jolt to the prevailing global order, Trump on Thursday authorised tariffs on as much as $60 billion of Chinese imports, targeting sectors in which...

Trump trade gambit tests 'friendship' with China's Xi

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

Since taking office in January 2017, the 71-year-old salesman-in-chief has boasted about his "great relationship" with world leaders, from Turkey's Recep Tayyip...

China threatens US with tariffs, says 'not afraid of trade war'

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

Beijing unveiled a hit list that could face duties of up to 25 percent, from fresh fruit to pork and wine, though it stopped short of pulling the trigger as it ...

US launches WTO challenge against China

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

"The United States is taking action at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to address China's unfair technology practices that run counter to WTO rules," the sta...

Trump to announce China trade sanctions on Thursday

Mar 22, 2018 (AFP)

Spokesman Raj Shah told AFP that Trump will announce actions following an "investigation into China's state-led, market-distorting efforts to force, pressure, a...

US and China: an uneasy economic partnership

Mar 22, 2018 (AFP)

But Washington accuses Beijing of a host of unfair trade practices, including the "theft" US technology. In his latest strike against the trade behemoth, Presid...

Trump prepares China trade sanctions, Beijing vows retaliation

Mar 22, 2018 (AFP)

White House spokesman Raj Shah told AFP that Trump will announce actions following an "investigation into China's state-led, market-distorting efforts to force,...

China may target Trump-voting states in trade war

Mar 22, 2018 (AFP)

The world's second largest economy warned again on Thursday, hours before Trump's announcement, that it was ready to "take all necessary measures to resolutely ...

China urges US to not act emotionally; US trade groups say same and more

Mar 20, 2018 (AFP)

After announcing tariffs on global steel and aluminium imports, Trump is now mulling new actions against China over its "theft" of US intellectual property. Was...

US, China flex muscles at G20 meeting

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

The meeting of the world's leading economies in Buenos Aires comes days before US tariffs on steel and aluminum are due to come into force on Friday for all cou...

US-educated reformist takes over China's central bank

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

Yi, who taught at Indiana University before returning to China, was elected by the rubber-stamp National People's Congress with 2,965 votes in favour, two again...