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Deal or no deal? That’s what financial markets and businesses are waiting to learn. A weekend of productive trade talks in Geneva between the United States and China resulted in a “deal,” said Jamieson Greer, the United States Trade Representative and one of the main negotiators for the Trump administration. His Chinese counterpart expressed optimism,…
Top economic officials from the United States and China will meet on Sunday in Geneva for their second day of high-stakes negotiations, discussions that are aimed at easing tensions stemming from President Trump’s trade war. The talks have major implications for the global economy, which has been rocked by the tariffs that the United States…
Top economic officials from the United States and China are poised to meet in Geneva on Saturday for high-stakes negotiations that could determine the fate of a global economy that has been jolted by President Trump’s trade war. The meetings, scheduled to continue on Sunday, will be the first since Mr. Trump ratcheted up tariffs…
President Trump signaled on Sunday that he would pursue new tariffs on the powerful computer chips inside smartphones and other technologies, just two days after his administration excluded a variety of electronics from the steep import taxes recently applied on goods arriving from China. The push came as Mr. Trump’s top economic advisers scrambled to…
President Trump’s top trade official defended the administration’s aggressive tariff moves on Tuesday, arguing before a Senate committee that the U.S. economy is facing “a moment of drastic, overdue change” after decades of being propped up by the financial sector and government spending. The remarks by Jamieson Greer, the United States trade representative, came as…
China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, on Friday vowed that Beijing would firmly retaliate against the United States if it escalated the trade war with more tariffs, striking a tough note despite the country’s economic challenges. Mr. Wang’s comments came a day after President Trump suspended tariffs for goods coming from Mexico and Canada but did…
