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Trump launched global tariff wars in 2025. Here's a recap of his trade actions this year

It's been a rollercoaster of a year for U.S. trade policy. President Donald Trump launched a barrage of new tariffs in 2025, plunging the U.S. into trade wars with nearly every country in the world. Read More

Trump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025. See the impact of his tariffs, in four charts

Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. Read More

Trump administration says China's chip policies are unfair but will delay tariffs to 2027

The U.S. Trade Representative said tariffs on Chinese semiconductors, now at zero, are set to increase in June 2027. Read More

Trump Administration Delays Tariffs on Chinese Semiconductors

An investigation ruled that China’s inroads into the chip industry had hurt the United States. The administration delayed tariffs until 2027 amid a fragile truce between the countries. Read More

China further de-escalates US trade war as it calls off metals export ban

suspended an export ban to the US that had targeted gallium, germanium, and antimony, metals crucial for modern technology, Beijing's commerce ministry announced Sunday in a further de-escalation of ... Read More

China used its trade juggernaut to withstand US tariffs. Can it keep its edge?

As US duties on Chinese imports spun higher and higher earlier this year, Derek Wang braced for major disruption. With US orders ground to a halt, Wang, 36, who sells intelligent cookware out of ... Read More

Trump’s trade war is pushing Canada closer to China

It is an image that just a year ago would have seemed unfathomable: the Canadian and Chinese leaders standing side by side, shaking hands and grinning. Ties between the two countries cratered in 2018 ... Read More

Morgan Stanley lays out 3 scenarios for the US-China trade war — and says investors should be ready for tensions to quickly reignite

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China’s Purchases of US Soybeans Stall Despite Trade Truce

China’s purchases of American soybeans appear to have stalled, less than two weeks after the US touted a wide-ranging trade truce that signaled thawing relations between the world’s two biggest ... Read More

EU backs tariffs against US as trade war escalates

EU countries on Thursday approved a raft of tariffs targeting US goods including whiskey and motorcycles in retaliation against painful duties imposed by President Donald Trump on European metals. Read More