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June 26, 2022

tariffs

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Scotch whisky makers welcome suspension of costly US tariffs

June 22, 2021 Pan Pylas, Associated Press

LONDON — Scotch single malt whisky makers breathed a sigh of relief Thursday after the United States agreed to suspend tariffs on one of Scotland’s main exports in the wake of the resolution of a […]

Article

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Trade war with China

May 12, 2021 Russ Barringer III

America is at war with China, and we don’t even know it. Not a ground or air war, which I pray never happens, but an economic war; and they are kicking our rear ends. President […]

Business

Trump re-imposing tariffs on aluminum from Canada

August 7, 2020 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States is reinstating a 10% import tax on Canadian aluminum, raising tensions with an American ally just weeks after his trade pact with Canada […]

Aly Song—Reuters
News

China cuts tariffs on $75B of US imports in trade truce

February 6, 2020 The Associated Press

BEIJING — China cut tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. imports including soybeans, pork and auto parts Thursday in a trade truce with Washington while Beijing struggles with a costly virus outbreak. The cuts follow […]

News

Trump says GOP would be ‘foolish’ to block Mexico tariffs

June 5, 2019 By LISA MASCARO, LUIS ALONSO LUGO and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump declared on Tuesday that fellow Republicans would be “foolish” to block the tariffs he’s threatening on Mexican imports, but GOP senators fearing a new trade war were considering action […]

Business

Mexican avocado growers expect US consumers to bear tariffs

June 5, 2019 Arturo Perez and Amy Guthrie | The Associated Press

URUAPAN, Mexico — The baby avocados in Enrique Bautista’s vast orchard in western Mexico will grow to maturity, eventually, and be shipped out of Mexico. What remains to be seen is how many of those […]

News

Trump and Xi agreement buys time in trade war

December 5, 2018 Paul Wiseman | The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The dinner table diplomacy that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China conducted over the weekend produced something as vague as it was valuable: an agreement to keep talking.Forged over grilled […]

Opinion

HILL: Tariffs and world trade

October 17, 2018 Frank Hill

Tariffs are bad. They are just “taxes” by a different name. Higher taxes and tariffs retard economic production and growth. The higher the tax, or tariff, the lower amount of product is sold. Would the […]

Business

U.S. initiates steel, aluminum tariffs on allies, risks trade war

May 31, 2018 Emily Roberson

WASHINGTON/PARIS – Washington will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico from midnight on Thursday, ending months of uncertainty over potential exemptions and sharply escalating the risk of […]

Opinion

Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs

March 13, 2018 admin

There are a couple of important economic lessons that the American people should learn. I’m going to title one “the seen and unseen” and the other “narrow well-defined large benefits versus widely dispersed small costs.” […]

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