TRADE WARS

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EU-US trade row looms over NATO defence meet
Jun 06, 2018 (AFP)
European countries are at loggerheads with Washington over punishing new US tariffs on steel and aluminium as well as President Donald Trump's decision to pull ...
China offers to buy $70 billion in US goods: official
Jun 06, 2018 (AFP)
Top Chinese economic advisor Liu He made the offer during weekend trade talks in Beijing with a US delegation led by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, The Wall St...
Samurai wasps could help orchard growers battle stink bug invasion
Jun 06, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers are hopeful they're close to a natural remedy: the samurai wasp, Trissolcus halyomorphae. Thanks to the work of Hillary Peterson, a Penn State docto...
China 'regrets' EU challenge at WTO
Jun 04, 2018 (AFP)
The EU brought the challenge to the WTO on Friday, accusing Beijing of unfairly requiring foreign firms to hand over their technology to Chinese companies in or...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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