International Trade

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.

The government suspended the Jones Act last week, to allow non-US ships to move fuel to victims of hurricanes in Houston and Florida. Which once again made us wonder why the act even exists.

The "winners" and "losers" in a trade war.

Current Topic: Trade & Specialization Previous Topics Connected: opportunity cost Future Topics Foreshadowed: economic growth, savings and investment News Article: “Commentary: Tariffs aim at reducing big deficit with China” Article Link: https://mru.io/comme32a4b Description: A commentator fo...

As with a lot of developing countries (and developed countries for that matter) there tends to be a reliance on a particular resource which can be to the detriment of its economy. Invariably if an …

What happens when a new tariff gets put in place? To really see the action, you have to go to Newark, New Jersey.

Author A.J. Jacobs embarked on a quest with a deceptively simple idea at its heart: to personally thank every person who helped make his morning cup of coffee. More than one thousand "thank yous" later, Jacobs reflects on the globe-trotting journey that ensued -- and shares the life-altering wisdom he picked up along the way. "I discovered that my coffee would not be possible without hundreds of people I take for granted," Jacobs says.