February 18, 2020 National, News, Politics & Policy
China is following through on concessions it made to demands by the Trump administration to lower tariffs on American-made goods. China will grant exemptions on tariffs imposed against 696 U.S. goods, the ...
Read More » December 23, 2019 News, World
DHL’s Global Trade Barometer that tracks three quarters of world air and shipping trade reported its China index has been cut in half since President Trump took office in 2017. CEO of ...
Read More » September 23, 2019 News, World
It appears President Donald Trump has the votes of Indian Americans if a rally in Houston is any indication, Trump joined tens of thousands of Indian Americans on Sept. 22 who were packed ...
Read More » September 12, 2019 News, World
China is looking to narrow the scope of negotiations with the U.S. to only trade matters. The news comes as China’s industrial output has plunged to its lowest level since 2002 – ...
Read More » September 8, 2019 National, News
The unemployment rate among black Americans reached 5.5 percent in August—a historic low. That’s even down from 6 percent the month before and a substantial 0.4 percentage point below the previous record in May ...
Read More » September 3, 2019 News, News Briefs
Today’s news briefs: Hurricane Dorian turning north Dorian has destroyed thousands of homes in the Bahamas and left an entire island without power. The hurricane, which was a Category 5 storm for over ...
Read More » August 30, 2019 Politics & Policy
As media headlines focus on underperforming areas of the economy, the early story is not getting told. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released some revised employment numbers showing 500,000 fewer jobs ...
Read More » August 27, 2019 Media Watch, News
President Donald Trump has secured a major concession from leaders of the Group of Seven after they issued a declaration on Aug. 26 committing to fair trade. It has been Trump’s central effort ...
Read More » July 29, 2019 News, Politics & Policy
Shortly after overseeing the signing of a historic “safe third country” asylum agreement with Guatemala at the Oval Office on July 26, President Donald Trump told reporters that he expects to soon sign similar deals with Honduras and ...
Read More » June 27, 2019 News, Tech, World
American media scoffed when President Donald Trump suggested American companies would move factories out of China as a result of new tariffs. Now, one of the largest companies in the world is ...
Read More » June 10, 2019 News, World
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) responded to the June 8 announcement that the United States and Mexico had reached an agreement on immigration, saying, “We are deeply disappointed by the administration’s expansion of its failed ...
Read More » June 8, 2019 News, World
You wouldn’t know it from the media reports on tariffs and the trade war with China. Tariffs leveled by the U.S. against unfair trading partner countries aren’t that bad for our economy. ...
Read More » January 3, 2019 News, World
In a move that would be funny if it weren’t such good news for American farmers, President Trump has sold the Communist nation of China of all things…rice. Supporters of the president ...
Read More » December 2, 2018 News, World
China has apparently bowed to economic pressures brought on by increased tariffs under the Trump administration. In a closed-door dinner between Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 ...
Read More » November 21, 2018 National, News
NEWS ANALYSIS: Two years ago, Beijing was flying high. Well on its way to dominating the world. Or so it thought. Sure, the newly elected American president had talked tough on trade, ...
Read More » October 1, 2018 World
President Trump and his team have negotiated a victory for American manufacturers and farmers in a new trade deal with Canada. The announcement comes after Canada ultimately gave in to demands by ...
Read More » August 12, 2018 Missouri News
Missouri rice farmers could soon have a new export market. Greg Yielding, with the Missouri Rice Council and U.S. Rice Producers says Egypt is very interested in buying Missouri’s unmilled rice. Water ...
Read More » August 5, 2018 National
With the U.S. unemployment rate the lowest it has been since the early 1960s, American workers are prospering in ways they rarely have. Businesses are adding more hours for part-timers and converting ...
Read More » August 3, 2018 Missouri News, News
Missouri’s Republican Congressional representatives are finding rural support America’s tariffs to protect agricultural export. President Trump had said it would not be long before other countries began to reduce their high tariffs ...
Read More » July 15, 2018 World
America’s new auto, aluminum and steel tariff policies have now triggered retaliatory tariffs from other nations including Canada, the EU and China. Last week Trump imposed new tariffs on more than $30 ...
Read More » May 31, 2018 National, Politics & Policy
In a huge victory for the Trump administration’s tough talk on trade with China, the communist country has announced it will cut import tariffs on a range of consumer items including apparel, cosmetics, home appliances, and fitness products ...
Read More » March 23, 2018 World
It’s no secret that each year, China floods the U.S. market with cheap goods–with many of these products made in conditions that would be illegal in most of the world. Add to ...
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