International Trade

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Chuck Dardas, president and CEO of AlphaUSA, thought steel prices would have come back down to earth by now, but big domestic steel companies have another idea.In the past year, the spot price of steel has more than tripled. That has led to upward of $10 million in losses for Livonia-based AlphaUSA…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit increased to a record $73.3 billion in August as a small gain in exports was swamped by a much larger increase in imports. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that the monthly trade deficit increased 4.2% in August, rising to an all-time high, surpassing the previous record of $73.2 billion set in June.

TikTok deal-maker Demi Skipper is on a quest to get a house one trade at a time. Starting with just a bobby pin, Demi gives us a crash course on the economics of bartering.

Every day, millions of tons of goods pass through ports to get to their end consumers. Here are the world's busiest ports, and how numbers have changed.

Chart-topping rapper Rick Ross might portray the lifestyle of a person focused solely on opulence in his songs, but in reality, the self-proclaimed “Biggest Boss” said he works hard and practices frugality to live in the lap of luxury. Currently, the 45-year-old rapper resides in a gorgeous home in Georgia that comes with 109 rooms, including 12 bedrooms and 21 bathrooms, as Blavity previously reported . He purchased the estate which belonged to Evander Holyfield for 5.8 million in 2014 after it went into foreclosure. Ross told Forbes that his neighbors have told him that Holyfield spent a small fortune on lawn care for the property. But the Clarksdale, Mississippi native said he’d rather learn to cut grass himself than pay close to $1 million to maintain the lawn. “When I bought the Fayetteville estate, locals would see me walk out of a restaurant and scream, ‘You know Holyfield spent $1 million a year to cut the grass.’ So I decided that I was gonna cut my own grass. And that’s...

The pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers — whose mother is Mexican American — hit a home run with fans on Twitter.

Backseat in transit vans designed for quick removal was a way to skirt hefty import tariff, government says

Biden administration suspended duties to allow time for negotiations over digital-services taxes on US tech companies

What is the top export in every country? This series of maps explores some of the most influential goods in global trade.

Jeffrey Tsang is a sailor on a cargo ship. On a recent voyage from the Red Sea to Sri Lanka to Singapore to Hong Kong, he set up

Ocean carriers are making it more difficult and costly to ship American food exports. Industry groups want federal regulators to clamp down.

The United States has its largest trade deficits with China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Germany. The reasons are different for each of them.

While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers.

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The United States' trade deficit surged to its highest level in more than 14 years in November as businesses boosted imports to replenish inventories, offsetting a rise in exports.

The combined deficit for goods and services was $68.1 billion, while the deficit for goods alone was a record $86.4 billion.

In this fascinating modern history of U.S. trade wars, we show the most interesting conflicts affecting U.S. trade in the last century.

China’s exports rose in 2020 despite pressure from the coronavirus and a tariff war with Washington, boosting its trade surplus to $535 billion

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The U.S. government on Monday said it would begin collecting new duties on aircraft parts and other products from France and Germany from Tuesday after failing to resolve a 16-year dispute over aircraft subsidies with the European Union.

The U.S. will suspend a plan to hit $1.3B of French goods with tariffs in retaliation for their tax on the revenue of global tech companies

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department has branded Vietnam and Switzerland as currency manipulators while putting China and nine other countries on a watch list in an annual report...

Virtual assistants are one click—but often one continent—away. A new industry for bringing order to our work lives could shift the order of our workforce.

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Globalization is a worldwide process in which individuals have more and more interactions with people in other countries through trade, investment, and culture.