China condemned tariffs launched or threatened by US President Donald Trump at a World Trade Organisation meeting on Tuesday, saying such “tariff shocks” could upend the global trading system in a warning dismissed as hypocritical by Washington.
Leaders in Europe and Canada have said they will not let Donald Trump’s plans to hit their steel and aluminium exports with tariffs go unchallenged.
A new ‘global growth team’ of UK Trade Envoys has today [28 January] been appointed by the Trade Secretary to drive UK exports and investment as the Government pulls every lever available to drive economic growth under its Plan for Change.
He laid out a carrot-and-stick approach for private investment in the U.S.
The World Trade Organization chief said on Thursday that any tit-for-tat trade wars prompted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats would
President Trump said on Monday that he expects to put 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on Feb. 1, while declining to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.
According to the latest WTO Goods Trade Barometer, which registered a reading of 102.7. This value, above the baseline of 100, indicated above-trend trade growth.
Johannesburg South Africa’s rand weakened on Monday in a thin trading session ahead of the year-end.
American president openly plugging their products and installing cheerleaders in positions where once there were cops. Mainstream money is flowing in. A US bitcoin reserve is on the table.
There is increasing evidence of inward-looking trade policies which could generate further uncertainty for the world economy.
