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Trade War Explodes Across the Global March 25, 2025

Barriers to open trade are rising across the world at a pace unseen in decades, a cascade of protectionism that harks back to the isolationist fervor that swept the globe in the 1930s and worsened the Great Depression. ...

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China Imports of U.S. Commodities, Cars Collapse in New Trade War March 21, 2025

Canada’s Elites Are Exploiting Trump’s Trade War March 20, 2025

The ruling Liberal Party has cynically reinvented itself as a patriotic protector of the people....

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Trump’s Tariffs Challenge India’s Economic Balance March 20, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have dominated headlines in India in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Trump announced that his reciprocal tariffs—matching other countries’ tariffs on American goods—will go into effect on 2 April, causing ...

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Canada Should Call Trump’s Bluff and Drop All of Its Tariffs March 20, 2025

We now appear to be in a full-fledged trade war with our closest ally and neighbor. ...

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A Trade War With Sinners on Both Sides March 19, 2025

Trump targeting allies doesn’t excuse the EU’s imposing new tariffs that taxpayers will have to bear, rather than addressing European protectionism. ...

BOJ to Debate Economic Risks From Trump Trade War March 15, 2025

Is Canada Doing Enough To Stop the U.S. Trade War? March 14, 2025

There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and the US is beginning to look like a case in point. ...

EU Braces for Higher Prices as U.S. Trade War Ramps Up March 13, 2025

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Japan Braces for Trump’s Worst as Yen Takes Trade War Fire March 11, 2025

Trump: U.S. Economy in ‘Transition’ as Trade War Escalates March 10, 2025

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China Says Its Ready and Able To Fight Trump’s Trade War March 06, 2025

A Trade War Could Crash China February 05, 2025

Even though it is Chinese New Year this week, Beijing has wasted no time in hitting back at Trump’s additional 10% tariff on all US imports from China. ...

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Has Brexit Finally Paid Off? February 05, 2025

The U.S. president hinted he’ll spare Britain from his trade war, while hammering the EU. But as Nigel Farage surges in the polls, Keir Starmer isn’t safe from Brexit yet. ...

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How China Is Playing To Win Trump’s Trade War February 04, 2025

Can Trump Win Trade Wars Before They Start? February 04, 2025

Donald Trump knows exactly what he's doing with tariffs. ...

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What Does Trump Want From a Trade War With China? February 04, 2025

What are the real intentions of Donald Trump’s trade war? Does he really believe tariffs work to boost economic growth domestically? Does he see them as tools to prop up American businesses, as his Vice President does? Or, as in his first term, are t...

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China Has Gotten off Lightly on Tariffs—for Now February 04, 2025

China looks like it got off easy in President Trump’s first broadside in a new trade war. But few in Beijing expect it to be the last. ...

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Threat of Tariffs Undermine U.S. Economic Security February 04, 2025

Talk has finally turned into action and the first shots of the 2025 trade war have been fired. President Trump has used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to place 25 percent tariffs on products from Mexico and Canada (10 percent...

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Europe Can’t Win a Trade War Against the U.S. February 03, 2025

It will hit back immediately. It will target the industries that will hurt the most. And it won’t be bullied or pushed around. We can expect to hear lots of tough rhetoric from European leaders today as the bloc prepares to retaliate against Donald T...

Can Canada and Mexico Overcome Fortress America? February 03, 2025

Fortress America: Trump’s New Trade War Targets Canada & Mexico with Tariffs – Bernard Lewis once said, “America is harmless as an enemy and treacherous as a friend.” The historian’s sharp aphorism was aimed at U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East....

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A Bad Omen for the Global Economy February 03, 2025

Asia had the first crack Monday at letting President Donald Trump know how disastrous his trade war will be for the global economy. The region’s markets didn’t hold back....

Italy: Buy American To Avoid a Trade War With Trump February 01, 2025

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