A U.S. military helicopter flies over the Panama-flagged Centuries, which was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a “blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, east of Barbados in the Caribbean Sea on Dec. 20, 2025. Department Of Homeland Security | Via Reuters The escalating…
French cheeses displayed in a store in Paris. Bertrand Guay | Afp | Getty Images China announced tariffs of up to 42.7% on dairy products from the European Union Monday, following the results of an anti-subsidy investigation that began in August 2024. In a statement by the country’s Ministry of Commerce, China said that EU…
New Delhi, India – March 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon witness the exchange of MOUs during the joint press statement at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on March 17, 2025. The India Today Group | The India Today Group | Getty Images India and New Zealand on Monday…
Honda vehicles are lined up at a vehicle storage yard at an industrial port, on the day U.S. President Donald Trump struck a trade deal with Japan that lowers tariffs on auto imports, in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan, July 23, 2025. Kim Kyung-hoon | Reuters Japan’s exports in November rose at their fastest rate in…
President Donald Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality” and has engaged in legal “retribution” against his enemies since his return to office, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said in a remarkably candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair published Tuesday. Wiles said in March that she and Trump had a “loose agreement that the…
The U.S. has halted a technology trade deal with the U.K., after officials in Washington became frustrated with the pace of progress, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Announced in September during President Donald Trump’s state visit to the U.K., the “technology prosperity deal” is a sweeping agreement aimed at encouraging collaboration between the countries…
The Defense Department is getting a 40% stake in a $7.4 billion mineral smelter to be built in Tennessee in partnership with Korea Zinc, Reuters reported Monday. The critical minerals smelting and processing facility could produce 540,000 tons of materials in the U.S. per year, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. The deal comes as…
A Deere & Co. tractor in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Republican lawmakers are appealing to President Donald Trump for more farm relief and aid for agricultural equipment manufacturers amid his tariff blitz, even as the…
Indonesia and United States flags together realtions textile cloth fabric texture Oleksii Liskonih | Istock | Getty Images The trade deal between Indonesia and the U.S. is at risk of unravelling as Washington officials view that Jakarta is going back on the terms of the agreement, according to The Financial Times. The report, citing people…
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer testifies during a US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on 2026 funding priorities, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Dec. 9, 2025. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee that the deadline…
