Sentences with phrase «us trade threats»

Mike Allen, Axios co-founder and executive editor, discusses White House leaks, President Trump's trade threats, and Mark Zuckerberg's trip to Capitol Hill.

Just months ago, Trump and Kim were trading threats and insults as the North made rapid advances in pursuit of nuclear - armed missiles capable of hitting the United States.

Those economic restrictions were intensified during a febrile 2017, when the U.S. and North Korean leaders traded threats while Kim pushed his nation to the verge of being able to fire a nuclear - tipped missile at the U.S. mainland.

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The White House is planning to make a major announcement Thursday about whether it will impose new limits on steel and aluminum imports, three people familiar with the event said, following months of speculation about whether President Donald Trump would follow through on trade threats and impose tariffs that could roil global markets.

The Trump administration's trade threats have rocked relations and business ties between the world's two largest economies.

Now, because of U.S. trade threats, the American companies are allowed to sell and advertise their cigarettes in all three nations without even carrying the warnings on the packages that are required in United States.

The comments come amid continued tensions between Holyrood and Westminster, with both sides trading threats on the timing of the referendum.

China's rubber - stamp parliament unanimously handed President Xi Jinping a second term Saturday and elevated his right - hand man to the vice presidency, giving him a strong ally to consolidate power and handle US trade threats.

The U.S. and China traded threats about tariffs back and forth during the week.

Although the rhetoric has been heated on both sides as President Trump and President Xi trade threats about various tariffs and taxes to potentially be imposed on each other's respective countries, Chinese real estate investors do not seem to be too worried about a potential trade war and its effects on their U.S. investments.

But oil prices slipped as the U.S. and China traded threats over tariffs on scores of imported goods.

Just in case you had trouble sleeping after Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump traded threats about each ruler's «nuclear button,» the North Korean supreme leader also said something uncharacteristically optimistic in his New Year's Day speech.

Not exact matches

The threat of a trade war would also freak out the overseas investors we count on to buy our government bonds, and keep our interest rates at super-low levels.

From a legal and regulatory standpoint, sanction - busting and lax regulatory compliance are very different sins than intellectual property theft and discriminatory trade polices (which Trump often cites as the main justifications for his threat to impose tariffs on Chinese imports).

Market - watchers have been on edge in recent weeks with lingering threats of trade wars and the possibility of the market turning negative.

As earnings kick into high gear, investors have brushed the trade war threat to the background.

He also referred to the U.S.'s threats of unilateral trade action against China, recommending that the White House figure out what it wants from China, listen to China's own complaints, talk to American allies and set out a clear timeline for action.

Suing the U.S. at the WTO would take years, and Trump, who has called the Geneva - based trade watchdog a «disaster,» could follow through on his threat to quit it.

The threat of a looming trade war has brought uncertainty into the Thai stock market, an executive at the Stock Exchange of Thailand said.

CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis reports on the ETFs market as energy leads today's rally despite the threat of a trade war.

The United States has started to deploy missile defenses in South Korea that China views as a threat, Washington believes Beijing could do more to rein in Pyongyang's weapons programs, and prominent Trump administration officials and Trump himself have bashed China's trade practices.

Canadians who view foreign control of the economy as a threat to national security are less willing to support trade agreements with Asian countries.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee said every GOP senator is concerned about the direction President Donald Trump is taking on trade, from slapping tariffs on solar panels to his threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreetrade, from slapping tariffs on solar panels to his threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade AgreeTrade Agreement.

BRUSSELS — The head of the European Union's executive has warned the United States that the bloc will not negotiate trade concessions under threat, a day after President Donald Trump granted the EU only a one - month extension on steel and aluminum tariffs.

President Donald Trump and his advisors were loud in their threats of a trade war with China but the Shanghai Index charts shows China is shrugging off this rhetoric.

Most Americans recognize that protectionism is a losing hand, as evidenced by a recent Gallup poll showing that 58 % of the nation sees foreign trade as an opportunity rather than a threat.

The decision will make the CSeries uneconomical for American carriers, but beyond the threat it poses to Bombardier's bottom line, this trade spat clouds the horizon for NAFTA: The Next Generation:

The idea is out there: the entrance of China into the global trading community has become threat No. 1 for many western manufacturers.

The threat of a trade war between the U.S. and China grew more pronounced last week and there could be a winner from the fallout if tensions escalate, says one strategist.

* No signs of cargo downturn due to U.S. - China trade war threat.

He declined to comment on whether the United States» threats on tariffs are a tactic to push trade talks.

Ethanol demand has been vital to farmers who are buffeted by low commodities prices and the threat of a global trade war.

The ministers frequently evoked their close relationship, but there was an undercurrent of tension as the threat of trade war and the prospect of NAFTA's collapse loomed over the panel.

It's a threat the President has repeated on multiple occasions, having at various times called NAFTA the «worst trade deal in the history of the world» and «the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world» and all terrible points in between.

The threat of escalation in Syria and the trade dispute between Beijing and Washington have dampened stock market confidence, while gold has traditionally been a safe asset for investors in times of volatility.

Shumpert is also a decent three - point shooter and gives the Cavs another outside threat the defense must respect and since the trades and LeBron's return no team is making more 3 - pointers per game.

«I would just a call this a threat - counterthreat environment, not a trade war.»

More alarmingly, it has been lobbying against traditional theater - only cinematic runs for new movie releases — leading John Fithian, CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners trade organization, to call out Netflix at a recent conference as a «grave threat to the movie business.»

The Trump administration is planning to hike trade pressure with threats to block Chinese technology investment in the United States.

Everyone from liberal, Nobel - winning economist Paul Krugman to Republican Sen. Ben Sasse has noted that technological developments are a bigger threat to American workers than trade.

Trudeau credited the co-ordinated efforts of business, labour and political leaders for securing an exemption for Canadian steel and aluminum from the recent threat of U.S. trade duties.

The threat of a global trade war, which has caught the attention of investors in a big way, is also a concern for the Federal Reserve.

But while all that red ink set up the necessary conditions, it took the threat of a sovereign debt crisis and the rise of small - c conservatism to generate what John Monks, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, has described as a «stampede towards austerity.»

Here's something that might alarm financial markets as much as President Trump's trade war threats: his reshaped Republican Party doesn't much mind them.

Taking effect in 1994, NAFTA underpins much of the more than $ 1 trillion in annual trilateral trade, and Washington's threats to walk away from the pact have spooked markets.

Some said it would be from tax cuts (unlikely to pass this year), others said it would be from infrastructure spending (also unlikely), and then there were those like Buiter who saw a trade war as the biggest threat.

Conversely, if gunboat diplomacy is an option, you can use threats to become the monopoly purchaser of a country's exports and force them to trade at an unfavourable price.

In a statement Friday from the IMF meetings, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged the IMF to «step up to the plate» to call out countries engaged in unfair trade practices — a frequent refrain from the Trump administration is that its trade penalty threats are not protectionist, but simply seeking «fair» exchange.

Washington is accusing Chinese firms of stealing the trade secrets of U.S. companies and forcing them into joint ventures to acquire their technology — the crux of Trump's current tariff threats against China.