International Trade

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.

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...