Trade policy

File - Greg Hands, the then Chief Secretary to the Treasury, pose for a photograph during a visit to Inmarsat in London, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. China lashed out Monday, Nov. 7, 2022, at a visit by Britain’s Trade Policy Minister Greg Hands to Taiwan, the latest in string of foreign officials to defy Beijing’s warnings over contact the self-governing island republic. (Anthony Devlin/Pool Photo via AP, File)

China lashes out at visit by UK trade minister to Taiwan

China has lashed out over a visit to Taiwan by British Trade Policy Minister Greg Hands, the latest foreign official to defy Beijing’s warnings over contacts with the self-governing island republic.
November 7, 2022
Robert Habeck, third left, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, receives Yulia Zvyrydenko, fourth left, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Yasutoshi Nishimura, third from right, Minister of Economy of Japan, Kenji Yamada, left, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, Manlio Di Stefano, second from right, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Italy, Mary Ng, second from left, Minister of Trade of Canada, Olivier Becht, fourth from right, Minister of Trade of France, Katherine Tai, right, Trade Representative of the United States, and Jo Crellin, right,, Minister of Trade of Canada.vl), Minister of Trade of Canada, Olivier Becht Minister of Trade of France, Katherine Tai, middle, Trade Representative of the United States, and Jo Crellin, right, Director General at the Department for International Trade of the United Kingdom, pose for a family photo at the beginning of the G7 Trade Ministers meeting at Neuhardenberg Castle on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 in Neuhardenberg. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

G7 nations to take tougher line on trade with China

September 15, 2022
President Joe Biden’s Cabinet and Cabinet-level picks. (AP Graphic)

Senate confirms Katherine Tai as Biden’s top trade envoy

March 17, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks about the economy in the State Dinning Room of the White House, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden treads carefully around Trump’s combative trade policy

February 9, 2021
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a coronavirus press conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Friday Jan. 22, 2021. Johnson announced that the new variant of COVID-19, which was first discovered in the south of England, may be linked with a possible increase in the mortality rate. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

Britain’s Boris Johnson presses Biden for new trade deal

January 24, 2021

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FILE - In this March 1, 2020 file photo, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo faces reporters during a news conference, in Providence, R.I. President-elect Joe Biden has picked Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to lead the Commerce Department. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Biden picks Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo as commerce secretary

January 8, 2021
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, accompanied by Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., left, Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee Maxine Waters, D-Calif., second from left, Chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., third from right, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Richard Neal, D-Mass., second from right, and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff, D-Calif., right, appear at a news conference to unveil articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Pelosi offers some trade policy with that impeachment

December 11, 2019
President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, speak to the media before a working breakfast meeting at the Hotel du Palais on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (Erin Schaff, The New York Times, Pool)

Trump sends mixed messages to China on trade war

August 25, 2019

Trump sends mixed messages to China on trade war

August 25, 2019
FILE - In this March 14, 2019 file photo a woman shops at Neiman Marcus during the opening night of The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards in New York. Retailers and consumer product makers like American Textile may have received some short moment of reprieve after the Trump Administration delayed the 10% tariffs on some products which also include toys, clothing and shoes. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Retailers wrestle with a volatile trade policy with China

August 14, 2019
FILE - In this July 24, 2018, file photo a field of soybeans is seen in front of a barn carrying a large Trump sign in rural Ashland, Neb. President Donald Trump's boundless enthusiasm for tariffs has upended decades of Republican trade policy that favored free trade. It has left the party's traditional allies in the business world struggling to maintain political relevance in the Trump era. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Businesses showing discontent with Trump’s trade policies

June 12, 2019
President Donald Trump, with first lady Melania Trump, waves as they depart Shannon Airport, Friday, June 7, 2019, in Shannon, Ireland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Free traders no more? GOP warms up to Trump’s use of tariffs

June 8, 2019
President Donald Trump arrives to speak on energy infrastructure at the Cameron LNG export facility, Tuesday, May 14, 2019, in Hackberry, La. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s defense of tariffs based on dubious claims

May 14, 2019

Tractor-man Rides Herd

February 7, 2019

Texas booming but lawmakers warned of economic ‘uncertainty’

January 7, 2019
President Donald Trump listens to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak during their meeting, Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s thin grasp of trade, science policy

December 1, 2018
Well-wishers hold an American flag as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence's motorcade travels through Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)...

Pence, Xi trade barbs in speeches at Pacific summit

November 17, 2018

Sonny warned ‘em — twice, in fact

November 16, 2018

Minnesota Poll shows splits on trade policy, tariffs

October 25, 2018
This Sept. 7, 2018, photo shows a farmhouse is surrounded by soybean fields in Locust Hill, Va. The U.S. and China have imposed import taxes on $50 billion worth of each other’s products. Caught in the crossfire are U.S. soybean farmers, a prime target of Beijing’s retaliatory tariffs, whose exports to China account for about 60 percent of their overseas sales. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

As midterms near, Trump gambles on his hardline trade policy

September 17, 2018
In this Aug. 27, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump listens during a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto about a trade agreement between the United States and Mexico, in the Oval Office of the White House. Trump is making trade policy the connective tissue that ties together his “America First” foreign policy and his political strategy for the 2020 presidential election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump sees mixing trade, foreign policy as good politics

September 3, 2018

The carrot, the stick and you

August 31, 2018

U.S. trade relations with Canada

August 29, 2018

AP-NORC Poll: Americans not enthused with Trump trade policy

August 24, 2018

On trade policy, Trump is turning GOP orthodoxy on its head

July 28, 2018

The Latest: Trump tweets US, EU ‘love each other!’

July 26, 2018

Trump’s tariffs: What they are and how they will work

July 9, 2018

Trump’s tariffs: What they are and how they will work

July 7, 2018

Trump denies he’s to blame for Harley-Davidson decision

June 26, 2018

Minnesota’s soybean sales could take big hit if China tariffs proceed

June 22, 2018

Lawmakers rip tariffs enacted in name of national security

June 21, 2018
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario on Thursday, May 31, 2018. The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe, Mexico and Canada. Trudeau said: "These tariffs are totally unacceptable." Canada announced plans to slap tariffs on $16.6-billion Canadian (US$12.8 billion) worth of U.S. products, ranging from steel to yogurt to toilet paper. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trump’s tariffs: What they are and how they would work

June 2, 2018
FILE - In this April 7, 2018, file photo, a worker checks on rolls of aluminum at a factory in Zouping county in east China's Shandong province. Small businesses are threatened by higher costs from U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs and by a broader trade fight with China, as steel costs are already higher since the Trump administration announced a 25 percent tariff on the metal in March. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

How US small businesses can navigate the trade wars

May 1, 2018

White House downplays big drop in stock market

April 6, 2018

Trade war — ag exports critical to economy

March 24, 2018
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