China’s Wheat Imports Surge to Seven-Year High Amid Food Concern
China, the top producer of wheat, has been under pressure to fulfill annual grain import quotas, which include corn and rice, under WTO commitments. The country lost a dispute last…
Defying Dire Predictions, China Is the Bubble That Never Pops
To read the history of China analysis in the last 30 years is to be bombarded with predictions of imminent demise. Skeptics said, just poke beneath the surface, and the…
EU Open to Prolonged Digital Tax Talks to Avoid Trade War
The European Union may delay digital tax proposals to give countries move time to hammer out a deal and avert a transatlantic trade war, a top official from the bloc…
U.S. Targets Soap But Not Wine in Counter to French Digital Tax
The U.S. announced 25% tariffs on a series of French goods worth about $1.3 billion, in a long-running battle between the two countries over taxes on technology giants. “We call…
Exclusive: Congress can take vote to withdraw from WTO in July
The House and Senate parliamentarians have cleared the way for votes on a pair of resolutions to withdraw from the World Trade Organization in late July, after Congress returns from…
U.S. opens door to new tariffs on China
The US has opened the door to the imposition of new tariffs on China to protect its fishing industry, especially the lobster fishermen, which it considers “the crown jewel” of…
From Smoot-Hawley to ‘America first’ and ‘strategic sovereignty’
This month marks 90 years since the US signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act (SHTA). It was formally called “An Act to provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign…
US Chamber of Commerce wants to keep America dependent on China
The Chamber of Commerce and the other trade groups associated with it gussied up their plea to stop the “Buy America” mandates as being in the American interest. It’s all…
President Trump should issue the Buy American executive order to end China’s control of our medicines
With all we are facing today, with all the fear and outright transformation of our entire society, it might seem odd that a group of medical organizations would sign a…
Collaboration, “Buy American” efforts emerging from COVID-19 crisis
A Nielsen Company study found “shoppers are exhibiting signs that they may steer away from products that traveled long distances with multiple human touchpoints…” and that “consumers have generally displayed…