US was Japan's biggest export destination in 2023 with cars and auto parts making up a third of shipments, according to Japan's Finance Ministry
Governor Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta have emerged as prominent Democratic opponents of Trump's agenda, pledging to defend the state's liberal policies
Trade minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said Malaysia was closely monitoring developments after US President-elect Donald Trump said Brics members would face 100 per cent tariffs
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Donald Trump that Americans would also suffer if the president-elect follows through on a plan to impose sweeping tariffs on Canadian products, a Canadian minister who attended their recent dinner said Monday. Trump threatened to impose tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico if they don't stop what he called the flow of drugs and migrants across their borders with the United States. He said on social media last week that he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico as one of his first executive orders. Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc, whose responsibilities include border security, attended a dinner with Trump and Trudeau at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Friday. Trudeau requested the meeting in a bid to avoid the tariffs by convincing Trump that the northern border is nothing like the U.S. southern border with Mexico. "The prime minister of course spoke about the importance of protecting the .
LeBlanc was one of a handful of Canadian officials who attended the dinner with Trump and Trudeau, where the two leaders discussed a wide range of issues
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks "productive" but signalled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. After the leaders' hastily arranged dinner Friday night at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, Trudeau spoke of "an excellent conversation." Trump said in a Truth Social post later Saturday that they discussed "many important topics that will require both Countries to work together to address." For issues in need of such cooperation, Trump cited fentanyl and the "Drug Crisis that has decimated so many lives as a result of Illegal Immigration," fair trade deals "that do not jeopardize American Workers" and the US trade deficit with its ally to the north. Trump asserted tha
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday threatened 100 per cent tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the US dollar. His threat was directed at countries in the so-called BRIC alliance, which consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates. Turkey, Azerbaijan and Malaysia have applied to become members and several other countries have expressed interest in joining. While the US dollar is by far the most-used currency in global business and has survived past challenges to its preeminence, members of the alliance and other developing nations say they are fed up with America's dominance of the global financial system. The dollar represents roughly 58 per cent of the world's foreign exchange reserves, according to the IMF and major commodities like oil are still primarily bought and sold using dollars. The dollar's dominance is threatened, however, with BRICS' growing share of GDP and the alliance's
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday she is confident that a tariff war with the United States can be averted. But her statement the day after she held a phone call with US President-elect Donald Trump did not make clear who had offered what. There will be no potential tariff war, Sheinbaum said flatly when asked about the issue at her daily morning news briefing. On Wednesday, Trump wrote that Sheinbaum had agreed to stop unauthorised migration across the border into the United States. She wrote on her social media accounts the same day that migrants and caravans are taken care of before they reach the border. But whether that constituted a promise, a pledge or a simple statement of reality remains unclear. In recent years, migrants who have been unable to obtain permission to cross Mexico have joined together in caravans to walk or hitchhike north toward the US border, seeking safety in numbers. In fact, apart from the first caravans in 2018 and 2019 which were .
Nissan's worldwide output for October decreased 6 per cent from the same month a year earlier to 290,848 vehicles
US is expected to make its final determination in the coming days after delaying a decision twice
India is already under grave threat of import because all major steel consuming economies are shutting their doors on these steel producing countries, said Alok Sahay, secretary general at ISA
US President Joe Biden has directed his Trade Representative to increase tariffs on USD 18 billion of imports from China
China's Commerce Ministry also said that the move is against US President Joe Biden's earlier stand of not seeking to 'contain' or 'decouple' with Beijing
Biden's tariffs could boost demand by helping level a price differential with cheap imports from China, and could foster investments
Highlighting the discrimination part, the report said that of the companies that are subjected to India's equalisation levy, 72 per cent are American companies
Biden was responding to a question on about his remarks during the presidential debates that he wanted to punish China over the way Beijing has been behaving
The US charges high tariffs on several items such as tobacco at 350 per cent, peanuts at 163.8 per cent, footwear at 48 per cent, shoes at 32 per cent
Trade deficits can be a problem when those deficits are due to government borrowing in countries with weak economic and political institutions
Trump administration wants to reduce its $31 billion deficit with India
India's trade ministry is expected to shortly issue a notification that could delay the implementation of the new tariffs by 45 days