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“Turning the Presidency into Performance Art”: Sanctions Expert on What Trump Confuses About Tariffs
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With all its spectacle and chaos, Donald Trump’s shock and awe strategy is both domestic and global. Domestically, Trump and his agents are targeting the American government a...
By Edward Fishman
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Tech Industry Fears Donald Trump’s Trade War Will Hamper U.S. AI ‘Dominance’
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Donald Trump’s global tariff regime is endangering his ambitions of encouraging domestic chip production while hampering US goals of dominating the race to develop world-beati...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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What to Watch for as Trump’s ‘Reciprocal’ Tariffs Kick In
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At 12.01am EST (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs will kick in, ramping up a global trade war that has roiled stock markets ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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What 'Unprecedented' U.S. Tariffs Mean For Europe
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US President Donald Trump's April 2 announcement to raise tariffs to the highest level in more than 100 years has sent stock markets tumbling and shaken the global economy....
By Emily Kilcrease
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The Trade Surplus That Trump Never Mentions
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In justifying his latest tariffs announcement, President Donald Trump complains of unfair trade deficits, saying the US has been “looted, pillaged, raped, plundered” by other ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Trump Tariffs Offer Opportunity for China
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Asia's largest economy promptly slapped identical tariffs on the United States and said it would impose export controls on rare earth elements vital in consumer and medical te...
By Jacob Stokes
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Trump’s Tariffs Are Hitting China’s Friends Hard — and Giving Beijing a Golden Opportunity
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President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs are expected to cut deep against both friend and foe, but several of the nations that stand to suffer the most are right on China's d...
By Emily Kilcrease
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In Leaderless South Korea, Trump’s Tariffs Will Overshadow Snap Election
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With a snap election looming, South Korea's rival parties jockeyed for position with vows to focus on the economy and livelihood, but the leaderless country remains hamstrung ...
By Dr. Duyeon Kim
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No Tariff ‘Liberation’ for China
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“The only way this gets resolved is through a leader-level summit that both leaders would have to be open to, but China is backed into a corner with a tariff rate this high,” ...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Donald Trump Erects a Protectionist Barrier Around America
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US presidents from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton and George W Bush have used the White House Rose Garden to celebrate significant moments in America’s drive to liberalise the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Here’s How Trump Tariffs Were Calculated and Why Experts Are Raising Concerns with the Methodology?
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As President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs against America’s trading partners, he repeatedly emphasized that each country’s rate was determined by a reciprocal formul...
By Emily Kilcrease
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‘Ridiculous’: Lawmakers Pan Trump Plan to Tie TikTok to Tariff Relief
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President Donald Trump created a fresh round of confusion on Capitol Hill this week with his latest scheme to force China into a TikTok deal....
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Trump Weighs an Economic Assault on the ‘One Big, Juicy Target Left’ in Russia: Its Oil
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The U.S. is weighing an all-out economic assault on the lifeblood of Russia’s economy, its energy exports, in what analysts say would be a dramatic, potentially high-risk move...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Gulf Economies Avoid Harshest Trump Tariffs but Do Not Escape Unscathed
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Gulf Co-operation Council countries were largely spared from US President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, but the new levies' effects will be felt across the r...
By Rachel Ziemba
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How Are Trump’s Tariff Rates Calculated?
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As he unfurled his list of tariffs targeting most of America’s trading partners, President Trump repeatedly stressed that each nation’s rate was reciprocal — reflecting the ba...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Want to Play a Game? Global Trade War Is the New Washington Pastime.
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The world’s biggest powers were deep in a trade war. Economic losses from the tariffs that President Trump had imposed on most of the world, along with global retaliation, wer...
By Emily Kilcrease & Geoffrey Gertz
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Major Canada-U.S. Talks Are Coming — Here’s What’s in Play
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Canada's prime minister, whoever that is in a few weeks, is about to walk straight into a historic crossroads....
By Geoffrey Gertz & Emily Kilcrease
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Trump, AI and the Building Blocks of the U.S. ‘Nuclear Renaissance’
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When World Bank president Ajay Banga signalled his willingness to drop the institution's ban on funding nuclear energy projects, it marked a moment when the institution aligne...
By Rachel Ziemba
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If Trump Wants New Pressure on Moscow, Oil and Gas Is 'Only Thing Left'
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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States can do "devastating" things to Russia's economy to put pressure on Moscow to accept a peace deal with Ukraine....
By Emily Kilcrease
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Trump Barrels Toward China Trade War
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US President Donald Trump wasted little time imposing tariffs of 20% on China that could presage more drastic actions as he moves to derisk from Beijing and counter overcapaci...
By Emily Kilcrease
