trade agreements

Feb 12, 2026
Are U.S. allies pivoting to China for trade deals?
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Canadian PM Mark Carney and British PM Kier Starmer both visited Beijing in January for trade talks. Could it be a sign of a shifting world order?
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Jul 3, 2025
Lower tariffs are still tariffs
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A 10% or 20% tariff is it’s still a significant tax on imports — that Americans will pay.
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Dec 27, 2019
Farm prices likely to stay low in 2020
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The “Phase 1” trade deal may not make much of an impact on crop prices.
Oct 2, 2018
After NAFTA overhaul, Canada and Mexico turn to hammering out metal tariff deal
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The newly inked trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico resolves issues regarding pharmaceuticals and dairy — but that still the leaves the separate, unresolved feuds around steel and aluminum tariffs. How will the three countries use the NAFTA negotiations to influence how they figure out a metal tariff deal? Click the audio player […]
Jul 18, 2018
U.S. risks isolation as other countries sign trade pacts
Tuesday in Tokyo, the European Union and Japan inked a fresh trade pact that will eliminate most of the tariffs between them. The EU has been a busy bee on the trade front. It recently agreed to a new deal with Mexico, and a new one with Canada is now up and running. It’s in […]
Nov 10, 2017
Trump talks America First at APEC Conference
President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping both spoke today at an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam. The Chinese president talked of economic openness and international cooperation … President Trump pledged to put America first and to pursue bilateral trade agreements instead of multilateral ones. In other words, the U.S. should […]
May 18, 2017
U.S. pullout doesn’t deter aspiring TPP members
The remaining members of what would have been the Trans-Pacific Partnership will meet this weekend in Hanoi. Several countries attending the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in the Vietnamese capital will hold discussions about reviving the regional trade agreement. The U.S. may have pulled out of the deal, but there is still a strong desire to […]
Mar 21, 2017
What a baseball game has to do with the NAFTA negotiations
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Carla Hills of the U.S. and Michael Wilson of Canada helped broker what Hills calls the 'premier trade agreement for its time.'
Jul 28, 2016
TPP galvanizes voters, divides both parties
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How did a complicated, arcane international trade deal become a defining issue in the 2016 election?
Jun 3, 2015
President Obama says China open to joining trade partnership
Kai sits down with the POTUS to discuss TPP and the future of international trade.