Trump Tariffs

US President-elect Donald Trump delivers remarks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 16, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
USA

Greenland, gas heaters and the Gulf: Takeaways from Trump's press conference

Trump always needs opponents to push against - even if they are allies

Philip R. Lane Chief Economist, European Central Bank talks to Balazs Koranyi, Chief Correspondent, Reuters (not pictured) at the London Stock Exchange, London, Britain, June 17, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Anna Gordon/File Photo
Global Economy

Global trade fragmentation comes with big output losses: ECB warns

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) gives a statement on the day of a CDU faction meeting at the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Lisi Niesner/File Photo
Europe

German opposition's chancellor candidate backs free trade talks with Trump

Employees work on the production line at the Midnight Charm Garment lingerie factory in Guanyun county of Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China November 25, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Florence L
China

China's 'erotic clothing' capital braces for Trump and e-commerce crackdown

Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland speaks during a press conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada November 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo
Global Economy

Canada says it will respond robustly if US imposes tariffs

President-elect Donald Trump attends a campaign event, in Allentown, Pennsylvania, US, October 29, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid//File Photo
USA

Stocks cheered Trump's victory, but tariffs bring unknowns to 2025

A worker monitors the production line of drip tape fittings at a factory of DAYU Water Group Co, in Jiuquan, during an organised media tour in Gansu province, China October 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo
China

China ready to go deeper into debt to counter Trump's tariffs

Flags of the US, Canada and Mexico fly next to each other in Detroit, Michigan, US August 29, 2018. Photo: REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo
USA

Mexico doing all it can to protect trade agreement with US, Canada: official

Flags of China and US are displayed on a printed circuit board with semiconductor chips, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo
China

US chips are ‘no longer safe,’ Chinese industry bodies say in latest trade salvo

FILE PHOTO:Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration
Global Economy

Malaysia says any US tariffs on BRICS nations could impact semiconductor supply

A central processing unit (CPU) semiconductor chip is displayed among flags of China and US, in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo
Global Economy

How China could retaliate against new US chip curbs

Former US President Donald Trump talks with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a North Atlantic Treaty Organization Plenary Session at the NATO summit in Watford, near London, Britain, December 4, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
USA

Canada is already examining tariffs on certain US items following Trump's tariff threat

Melquiades Flores, owner of M&M Tomato and Chile Company, speaks as he stands near boxes with produce, in Los Angeles, California, US, November 27, 2024, in this screengrab taken from a video. Photo: REUTERS TV/via REUTERS
USA

Under tariff threat, US wholesaler warns: ‘People will pay'