Tag: United States

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  WTO agrees to a Beijing request for a dispute channel on solar channels and US tariffs

  

  The World Trade Organization agreed on Thursday to China's request to create a dispute panel tasked with judging whether US tariffs on solar panels violate international trade rules. The trade restrictions were imposed by Donald Trump's administration last year, part of a raft of measures initiated by Washington that have triggered a tit-for-tat tariff war between the world's top two economies.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 07:00 UTC

  Trump reveals “productive” trade talks with Beijing and anticipates a “fairly short war”

  

  US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that U.S. and Chinese negotiators were holding “productive” trade talks and expected them to meet in September despite U.S. tariffs on over US$125 billion worth of Chinese imports taking effect Sept 1.

• Friday, August 16th 2019 - 08:04 UTC

  Gibraltar releases Iranian super tanker hours before a US Justice detention request

  

  The Gibraltar Government on Thursday released the Iranian supertanker Grace 1, which was seized on July 4 on suspicion it was shipping 2.1m barrels of crude oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 12:31 UTC

  Trump praises Xi and says the Chinese leader can “humanely” resolve the Hong Kong situation

  

  US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Xi Jinping can “humanely” resolve the violent standoff with protesters in Hong Kong and appeared to suggest meeting the Chinese leader.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 18:33 UTC

  Brazil: court injunction to prevent Bolsonaro's son appointment as ambassador in US

  

  Brazilian federal prosecutors filed a court injunction on Tuesday seeking to bar the appointment of conservative president Jair Bolsonaro’s son Eduardo as ambassador to the United States due to his lack of experience as a diplomat.

• Wednesday, August 14th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Trump threatens to pull the US out of WTO: “they have been screwing us for years”

  

  President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to pull the United States out of the World Trade Organization (WTO) if conditions are not improved. “We will leave if we have to,” Trump told a cheering audience of workers at a Shell chemical plant in Pennsylvania.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 07:26 UTC

  Trump latest: “wealth test” rule for immigrants could deny visas and residency to thousands of poor applicants

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Monday that some experts say could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 07:37 UTC

  US approved the nomination of Bolsonaro's son as next Brazilian ambassador in Washington

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday the United States has approved the nomination of his son Eduardo as ambassador to Washington.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 07:32 UTC

  China's growth vulnerability to US tariffs exposed by the IMF

  

  China's economy already is slowing amid the trade conflict with the United States, but if Washington were to ramp up tariffs even further it could cut Chinese growth sharply, the IMF warned on Friday.

• Saturday, August 10th 2019 - 07:25 UTC

  Markets sharply lower as Trump says he's “not ready for a trade deal with China”

  

  President Donald Trump cast more doubt on chances for a trade deal with Beijing on Friday, signalling he might cancel talks set for September amid an intensifying US-China trade war.