China, Japan and South Korea
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The Wall Street Journal |
Japanese and Korean officials said there was no decision to coordinate action with Beijing, but said the countries have recently discussed trade issues amid three-way talks over the weekend, the firs...
Wall Street Journal |
President Trump’s 34% reciprocal tariff on Chinese imports as part of his sweeping trade action will effectively increase the average U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods to more than 70% when levies that pr...
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Asian markets and U.S. futures tumbled Thursday following U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of big increases in tariffs on imports of goods from around the world.
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Donald Trump, Tariffs
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President Donald Trump surprised global markets with his much-anticipated announcement of sweeping import tariffs.
CBC.ca |
Trump said he will impose a 10 per cent baseline tariff on all imports to the United States and higher duties on some of the country's biggest trading partners.
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"Anything that disrupts the global trading system is a threat to the UK," Reynolds told Times Radio on Thursday.
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Having awoken Thursday to news of a long-awaited and long-feared new U.S. tariff regime, key American allies in East Asia were stunned.
After their first trilateral economic meeting in over five years, China, Japan and South Korea vowed to strengthen their trading ties.
Not even America’s closest trading partners were spared by a policy broadside that spooked investors and left policymakers scrambling to formulate responses.
The comments came after the three countries held their first economic dialogue in five years. Read more at straitstimes.com.