Trade

Nancy Pelosi, the multi-millionaire, cares more about sticking it to Trump than passing USMCA in a win for Americans

September 17, 2019

(NationalSentinel) Fed up with inaction from the Democratic leadership on President Donald Trump’s renegotiated NAFTA agreement — the United States/Mexico/Canada [...]

China exempts some U.S. goods from retaliatory tariffs as fresh trade talks with Trump administration approach

September 11, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) The Chinese government has opted to spare some U.S. goods from being targeted with retaliatory tariffs after the Trump administration [...]

We keep saying it: Trump’s tariffs hurting China more than U.S., as new farm profit figures prove

September 5, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) While Democrats and their media allies continue to claim that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is harming American [...]

Trump justifies new China tariffs, explains how and why Beijing is paying for them, NOT American consumers

September 3, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) President Donald Trump justified his administration’s newest round of tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of [...]

Trump calls out Trumka: Labor boss ‘likes what we are doing on trade until the TV cameras go on’

September 2, 2019

(NationalSentinel) President Donald Trump called out AFL-CIO chief Richard Trumka on Monday after the latter criticized the administration’s trade policy, noting that [...]

Winning: G7 leaders make joint statement in support of President Trump’s principle of ‘free trade’

August 28, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) If, as Republican operatives and analysts have speculated, economics and trade far outweigh “Spygate,” Robert Mueller, and [...]

Trump sounds positive note on China trade talks: ‘I don’t think they have a choice’

August 27, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) President Donald Trump on Monday sounded upbeat about renewed trade talks with China as the world’s two biggest economies continue [...]

Critics are blasting President Trump after the G7 meeting because they can’t highlight his accomplishments

August 27, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) The reactions from the mainstream media, Democrats, and Trump haters of all stripes is well-worn and predictable now after every [...]

Following successful G7 conference, Trump pledges: ‘We’ll be heading back to the table with China’

August 26, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) After a relatively successful G7 conference in Biarritz, France, in which President Donald Trump came away with a new U.S.-Japan trade [...]

U.S. to sign new trade deal with Japan worth billions, to include farm and digital products and reductions in tariffs

August 25, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe closed a new trade deal worth billions to the United States and Japan in [...]

Republicans express support for Trump’s China tariffs as president works to assure allies at G-7 meeting

August 25, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) As some business groups express concern about President Donald Trump’s escalating tariff war with China and the U.S. [...]

Survey: Vast majority of farmers support POTUS Trump’s trade tariffs on China, contrary to Democrat claims

August 15, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) A day after Wall Street suffered one of its biggest one-day drops over fears of a ‘recession,’ critics of President Donald [...]

Analysis: U.S., China can make a trade deal ‘tomorrow’ if Trump can help Xi Jinping ‘save face’

August 15, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) As the trade war between the U.S. and China, the world’s biggest economies, continues, analysts and experts wonder if there will [...]

Wave of BAD economic data for China prove NeverTrumpers wrong: Tariffs are working

August 14, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) Amid a rash of news reports Wednesday claiming the U.S. is headed for a recession, thanks in large part to President Donald Trump’s [...]

As Trump triples down on China tariffs, administration will offer aid to hard-hit farmers

August 9, 2019

By Jon Dougherty (NationalSentinel) As American soybean farmers continue to suffer major economic losses as part of the fallout of the escalating U.S.-China trade war, the [...]