Trump Trade War

Trump Trade War

Workers transport soil containing rare earth elements for export at a port in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China October 31, 2010. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo

Global alarms rise as China's critical mineral export curbs take hold

German automakers became the latest to warn that China's export restrictions threaten to shut down production and rattle their local economies, following a similar complaint from an Indian EV...

An employee measures a newly manufactured ball mill machine at a factory in Nantong, Jiangsu province, China June 28, 2019. Picture taken through a ball mill machine June 28, 2019. Photo: REUTERS/Stringer/ File Photo

China's factory activity cools in May as US tariffs hit

Cranes at the Port of Los Angeles are empty of cargo ships as shown with a drone at in San Pedro California, US, May 13, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo

US pushes countries for best offers by Wednesday as tariff deadline looms

Cranes and shipping containers are seen at Pyeongtaek port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, April 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File photo

South Korea to minimise impact of 50% tariff on steel products

Components made at a factory are pictured in Higashiosaka, Japan June 23, 2022. Photo: REUTERS/Sakura Murakami/File Photo

Asia's factory activity shrinks in May as US tariffs bite

US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent speaks with with Liao Min, Deputy Minister of Finance of China, during a bilateral meeting between the US and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, May 11, 2025. Photo: KEYSTONE/EDA/Martial Trezzini/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

China rejects Trump's accusation that it breached Geneva trade deal

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House in Washington, US, February 7, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo

Japan PM Ishiba mulls Trump trade meeting before G7: Yomiuri newspaper

European Union flags fly outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium September 19, 2019/ Reuters

EU threatens countermeasures over Trump's steel tariffs hike

US President Donald Trump speaks next to a portrait of former US President Ronald Reagan during a press conference with Elon Musk (not pictured) in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, DC, US, May 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Nathan Howard

From TACO to FAFO, investors love parodies of Trump acronyms

US President Donald Trump walks as workers react at US Steel Corporation–Irvin Works in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, US, May 30, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Leah Millis

Trump says he plans to double steel, aluminum tariffs to 50%

A drone view shows electric vehicles (EV) for export and containers sitting at a port in Shanghai, China April 13, 2025. Photo: China Daily via REUTERS

All of Trump's tariffs and threatened trade actions

A central processing unit (CPU) semiconductor chip is displayed among flags of China and U.S., in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. Photo:REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo

US curbs chip design software, chemicals, other shipments to China

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers the State of the European Union address to the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, France, September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Brussels seeks companies' US spending plans as Trump hails move toward talks