BEIJING (Reuters) -The United States should remove what China described as unreasonable tariffs and create conditions to expand bilateral trade, a Chinese commerce ministry spokesperson said on Thursday when asked if China would purchase U.S. soybeans. China, the world’s biggest buyer of soybeans, has yet to book any U.S. soybean cargoes from its autumn harvest,…
By John Irish and Gwladys Fouche UNITED NATIONS/OSLO (Reuters) -A spat between the United States and Norway over the Nordic country’s wealth fund’s divestment from U.S. construction equipment-maker Caterpillar appears to be coming to an end, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said. Washington and Oslo have been at odds over the decision by Norway’s…
(Fixes typographical error in headline) (Reuters) – The United States is proposing annual approvals for exports of chipmaking supplies to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix’s China-based factories, Bloomberg News reported on Monday. Officials in the U.S. Commerce Department last week presented to Korean counterparts a “site license” idea to supplant indefinite authorizations the chipmakers secured…
China and Pakistan have pledged to expand trade and deepen technological cooperation in areas ranging from agriculture to space exploration, at a time when Islamabad is warming to the United States. During a meeting on Thursday with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Premier Li Qiang said Beijing would advance the second phase of the China-Pakistan…
LONDON (Reuters) -The United States has told countries to reject a United Nations’ marine fuel emissions-cutting deal or face tariffs, visa restrictions and port levies, U.S. and European officials and sources told Reuters. The Trump administration is looking to boost U.S. economic might, including by taking a bigger role in global shipping, and has used…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexico has expelled 26 high-ranking cartel figures to the United States in the latest major deal with the Trump administration as American authorities ratchet up pressure on criminal networks sending drugs across the border, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The cartel leaders and other prominent…
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — The United States’ suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border. Like his father and grandfather before him,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Taiwanese government has called off a plan for its president to transit through the United States on his way to Latin America, The Associated Press has learned — a decision leading to conflicting accounts of the reason for the cancellation. Amid speculation that the Trump administration had opposed a proposed stopover…
PARIS (Reuters) -The French wine and spirits exporters’ federation FEVS said on Monday the trade deal struck between the European Union and the United States was expected to confirm duty-free trade in spirits. Since April, U.S. duties on EU spirits had been provisionally set at 10%. As far as wine was concerned, not everything has…
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for the establishment of an international centre to better coordinate global cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI) and address the current “fragmented trend”. The move comes as China looks to expand its influence in the new but rapidly evolving sector amid a bitter tech competition with the United States. Opening…