Trade War

WTO Allows China to Impose Retaliatory Measures Worth $3.6 Bln Against US
This comes amid US President Trump's announcement that the signing site of the 'phase one' trade deal with China would be announced 'soon'. A World Trade Organization’s arbitrator ruled Friday that China could impose $3.6 billion worth of tariffs on US goods over its unfair anti-dumping practices. [...]
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EU ‘Regrets’ Record US Tariffs Over Airbus, Sees no Other Way but to Retaliate – Trade Chief
The statement comes in response to the imposition of tariffs by the United States on a record $7.5 billion worth of EU goods, after the WTO ruled that EU nations gave illegal state aid to Airbus. [...]
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Chinese Negotiators Cancel Earlier Planned Trip to US Farms, Leaving Washington Early
Chinese trade negotiators suddenly changed their plans on Friday, cancelling a visit to meet US farmers after they wrapped up trade talks in Washington this week. The Chinese delegation has changed its travel schedule heading back to China earlier than planned, according to Nicole Rolf, the Montana Farm Bureau Federation’s director of national affairs. [...]
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Brace for higher prices: New round of US-China tariffs comes into force
The trade war between the world’s two largest economies entered a new phase on Sunday, as US tariffs targeting Chinese-made products and Beijing’s retaliatory hikes on American imports both kick in. [...]
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All Fair in Trade War? White House Aides Claim Trump Faked Phone Call with China – Report
It is alleged that the phone call, in which Chinese officials invited their US counterparts to resume trade talks, didn’t happen the way Donald Trump described it did. The POTUS has yet to comment on the speculation. [...]
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Dow Jones tanks 600+ points as Trump trades barbs with Beijing and the Federal Reserve
The Dow Jones saw a steep drop of 700 points after a threat from Beijing to slap new tariffs on billions of dollars in American goods, and a harsh response from US President Donald Trump, but picked up before ending 621 down. [...]
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Full-on trade war: Trump jacks up tariffs on $550bn of Chinese goods, blasts ‘unfair’ response
US President Donald Trump has announced yet another major hike of existing and future tariffs on some $550 billion in Chinese goods, criticizing Beijing’s attempt to offset the losses as ‘unfair’ and ‘politically motivated.’ [...]
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Higher tariffs & currency devaluation don’t solve trade disputes, IMF warns US & China
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned trade war rivals, China and the US, that hiking tariffs only harms both domestic and global growth. The IMF also noted that manipulating exchange rates also doesn't work. [...]
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Trump bribing American farmers with taxpayer money to fix trade war damage – Prof. Richard Wolff
US President Donald Trump is essentially buying votes with money from American taxpayers after his aggressive tariff policy on China boomeranged on US farmers, Professor Richard Wolff has told RT. To compensate for lost crop sales to China, the Trump administration announced aid for farmers, expected to total $28 billion. [...]
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Moscow Ready to Grab US Markets in China as Chinese-US Trade Spat Intensifies
Beijing has blasted US President Donald Trump’s claims that China is a “currency manipulator,” and promised to halt the import of US agricultural goods after the White House announced plans to slap 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese imports from September. [...]
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‘Gambler Trump plays poker while China plays chess’, thinking a few moves ahead
The Trump administration is putting the US on a dangerous course by not assessing the long-term risks in the ongoing trade war with China, analysts told RT as tensions flare between the world's biggest economies. [...]
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Microsoft WARNS US Crackdown on China’s Huawei Could Backfire
Earlier this month, a report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation issued a warning that a clampdown on US tech exports would put as much as $56 billion in export revenue and 74,000 jobs at risk over the next five years. [...]
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No US, no problem! Russia-China trade set to double & reach $200 billion soon
The trade volume between Russia and China is expected to continue to accelerate and reach new heights, doubling the current record level of $108 billion, the Russian economy ministry says. [...]
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Trump: My Plan B With China on Trade is to Reduce Business With China
The president earlier threatened to slap tariffs on the remaining $300 billion in Chinese goods coming into the United States unless Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to meet with him at the G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan to hammer out a trade deal favourable to Washington. [...]
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Global recession within less than a year if Trump escalates trade war – Morgan Stanley
The worsening trade conflict between the world’s two largest economies, the United States and China, could send the global economy into recession within three fiscal quarters, research by investment bank Morgan Stanley has found. [...]
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Tit-for-tat: Beijing to draft ‘blacklist’ of foreign companies harming interests of Chinese firms
The Commerce Ministry of China has pledged to create a list of foreign individuals, corporations and institutions that are considered “unreliable” or that violate the interests of Chinese businesses, state media reports. [...]
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China’s retaliatory tariffs on $60bn of US products kick in
China’s tariffs targeting $60 billion of American imports have taken effect as part of a tit-for-tat response to Washington’s trade war which saw Beijing slapped with extra levies on $200 billion worth of exports back in May. [...]
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Washington’s Huawei hypocrisy… US government is instrument of American corporations
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo doubled down on vilification of Сhinese telecoms giant Huawei as “an instrument of government” suggesting that the company was a national security threat by acting as an agent for Beijing. [...]
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Analyst on Huawei Case: US Seems to Realize that China is Getting Ahead of Game
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that Beijing will take all necessary measures to defend the rights and interests of Chinese companies. Sputnik talked about Huawei’s lawsuit against the US government with Andrew Leung, an independent China strategist based in Hong Kong. [...]
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