Tag: US/China trade war

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 04:51 UTC

  APEC finance ministers meeting in Chile, cautiously optimistic on a Beijing/USA trade agreement

  

  APEC finance ministers expressed “moderate optimism” on Tuesday that the United States and China will end their trade war and sign an agreement during the forum's summit in Santiago next month.

• 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.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 06:30 UTC

  US/China trade war and the Argentine situation impacts on Brazil's central bank policy of lower interest rates

  

  Brazil’s central bank will have to weigh potential price pressures from the U.S.-China trade war against prospects of a disappointing recovery when determining how long its easing cycle will last.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 07:56 UTC

  Despite the trade dispute, China's exports rose 3.3% during July

  

  Chinese exports rose unexpectedly in July, beating expectations for a fall, as trade tensions with the US continued to simmer. Official figures showed exports rose 3.3% last month, compared to forecasts for a 2% drop. Imports fell 5.6% in July, less than the expected 8.3% decline.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  US dollar up in Argentina on fears of Sunday's primaries and the global trade dispute

  

  Argentina’s peso fell 1.8% on Monday to 45.49 per U.S. dollar due to uncertainty over the country’s presidential election and the fallout from U.S.-China trade tensions, traders said.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:31 UTC

  Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic opioid painkiller poisoning US/China relations

  

  President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at China for failing to curb the export of illegal fentanyl to the United States. The powerful painkiller is the primary synthetic opioid available in the US, a class of drug that was responsible for almost 32,000 overdose deaths last year.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 07:30 UTC

  China bows to fight back Trump's tariffs: “if they want to fight, then we will fight”

  

  China on Friday vowed to fight back against US President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to slap 10% tariffs on the remaining US$300 billion in Chinese imports, a move that ended a month-long trade truce.

• Monday, May 27th 2019 - 05:52 UTC

  Trump announces US$ 16billion to help farmers caught in the US/China trade dispute

  

  US President Donald Trump unveiled a new US$16 billion aid package to help farmers caught in the crossfire of his trade war with China. “The farmers have been attacked by China,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We're going to help out our farmers and we're giving them that level playing field that is so important.”

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 06:00 UTC

  US/China conclude first of two days of talks; Trump's tariff hike anticipated

  

  Top US and Chinese trade negotiators concluded the first of two days of talks on Thursday to rescue a trade deal that is close to collapsing as Washington prepares to go ahead with plans to hike tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods imported from China.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Trump open to extending the deadline for a trade deal with China

  

  United States president Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would consider extending the deadline for a trade deal with China beyond March first.