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U.S. Takes Energy Leverage to New Heights
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Energy markets, oil firms, producers and major importers have lived with the impact of US sanctions on the energy trade for decades. But the levers the administration of Presi...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Sheinbaum Warns of Deeper Cuba Crisis After Trump Oil Threat
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned that the latest US tariffs threatened by Donald Trump on goods from countries that support Cuba with critical energy supplies could ...
By Chris Kennedy
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Cuba Decries Trump’s ‘Genocidal’ Threat, Girds for Calamity
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Cuba hit back at Donald Trump’s plans to use tariffs to choke off all oil supplies to the struggling island, calling it extortionary and declaring an emergency with conditions...
By Chris Kennedy
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Trump Administration Pushes Out Official Whose Unit Banned Chinese Vehicles
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President Donald Trump's administration has pushed out a Commerce Department official whose office effectively barred nearly all Chinese cars from the US market for national ...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Trump Wants U.S. Investment in Venezuela, but Sanctions Still Complicate It
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President Trump is trying to kick-start private investment in Venezuela while maintaining considerable control over the country and the companies that are allowed to do busine...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Greenland Escalation Risks a Different Kind of Trade War. How It Could Play Out.
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The tariff tit-for-tat is back, this time between the U.S. and Europe as President Donald Trump amps up the pressure on the continent in his effort to annex Greenland, a terri...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Carney’s EV Deal with Beijing Is High-Wire Diplomacy with Risks on Both Sides
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One day before Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump offered his latest dismissal of the Canadian auto industry. The North American free-t...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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Edward Fishman on Economic Chokepoints
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Edward Fishman is a CNAS adjunct senior fellow and Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center on Geoeconomic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations. He is al...
By Edward Fishman
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TikTok Still a U.S. Security Risk, Defamation Suits & Free Speech and Other Commentary
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“Almost everybody in the U.S. government agrees that TikTok represents a serious national security risk” . . . except President Trump, gripes National Review’s Jim Geraghty. T...
By Liza Tobin
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U.S. Clamps Down on Investment in Chinese Tech Companies
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President Trump signed into law new powers to screen and restrict U.S. investment in Chinese technology firms, marking the most significant effort yet to police how American c...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Venezuela Sends Oil Tankers Under Naval Escort After Trump Declares Maritime Blockade
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According to sources familiar with the matter, several commercial ships departed Venezuela’s eastern coast between the evening of December 16 and the morning of December 17 un...
By Edward Fishman
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Can Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro Survive Donald Trump’s Oil Blockade?
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Venezuela’s leader Nicolás Maduro faces his biggest challenge yet after US President Donald Trump announced a blockade of the South American nation’s sanctioned oil exports, b...
By Edward Fishman, Joe Daniels & Jamie Smyth
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Venezuela’s Oil Is a Focus of Trump’s Campaign Against Maduro
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The Nobel Peace Prize winner made her pitch by live video to a business conference in Miami attended by American executives and politicians, including President Trump....
By Edward Fishman
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Donald Trump Stiffs Farmers and China Stiffs Donald Trump
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Welcome to the antepenultimate Trade Secrets newsletter of 2025. It doesn’t look like we’re going to get the US Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump’s tariffs before...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Analysts, Advocates Sound off During Day One of USTR’s Hearing on USMCA
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Trade researchers on Wednesday presented a largely positive assessment of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s performance to date – along with a host of targeted recommendation...
By Emily Kilcrease
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USMCA Partners Urged to Form Joint Economic Security Mechanism to Address China Challenge
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Witnesses at a US trade agency hearing are pushing officials to put economic security high on the agenda to counter China ahead of a high-stakes review of the United States-Me...
By Emily Kilcrease
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Wi-Fi Giant’s Vietnam Factory Raises Questions over China Split
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China-founded Wi-Fi behemoth TP-Link Systems Inc. is trying to convince US national security officials it’s independent from Beijing. The circumstances surrounding its Vietnam...
By Liza Tobin
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PIF-Backed Takeover of Electronic Arts Tests U.S. Security Regime
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The $55bn Saudi-backed takeover of US gaming giant Electronic Arts has sparked concerns that the US’s investment screening watchdog isn’t in a position to tackle the full brea...
By Geoffrey Gertz
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How America Fell Behind in the Rare-Earth Race—and How It Hopes to Come Back
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The United States has known for years that its economy runs on materials that it can’t control. The rare-earth metals that power F-35 fighter jets, electric vehicles, and iPho...
By Emily Kilcrease
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U.N. Security Council Removes Syria’s President from Sanctions List
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The United Nations Security Council voted on Thursday to remove President Ahmed al-Shara of Syria from a terrorism sanctions list, just days before his planned visit to Washin...
By Alex Zerden
