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April 8, 2026
White House Secures Foreign Steel for Ballroom Project
ArcelorMittal, a European steel maker, is donating tens of millions of dollars of foreign steel for President Trump’s new ballroom.
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April 7, 2026
‘Definitely a Sham’: As Tariffs Climb, Trade Fraud and Accounting Tricks Proliferate
U.S. imports from China have shrunk drastically. But billions of dollars of the change appear to be the result of accounting gimmicks and outright fraud.
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April 2, 2026
Rival Nations Seize On Choke Points to Counter Trump
From Iran to China, President Trump’s global aggression has encouraged other countries to search for new ways to pressure the U.S. economy.
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March 27, 2026
Global Food Supply Faces a Dangerous Bottleneck as Iran War Persists
Fertilizer prices are climbing as a result of disruptions in the Middle East, putting global food supplies at risk.
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March 20, 2026
U.S. Says 3 Tied to Silicon Valley Server Maker Broke Export Laws
Prosecutors said the men, including a co-founder of the company, Super Micro, had diverted servers containing Nvidia A.I. chips to China.
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March 18, 2026
The Cost of the A.I. Boom: A Trade Deficit the President Detests
A recent surge of A.I.-related imports has become an impediment to the smaller trade deficit President Trump wants.
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March 17, 2026
China Ramps Up Scrutiny of Meta’s Acquisition of Manus
The country appears to be cracking down on people linked to the acquisition of Manus, a Singapore company with Chinese roots, as President Trump prepares to visit Beijing.
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March 16, 2026
Trump Officials Look to More Managed Approach to Trade With China
The administration has begun discussing a new “Board of Trade” with China to try to balance what U.S. officials see as an unequal economic relationship.
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March 13, 2026
Wall Street Bankers Offered Lucrative Access to Join the Pentagon
A presentation from a headhunting firm aimed to recruit Wall Street investors to the Pentagon by offering “unmatched access” to government officials and fund-raising opportunities among foreign sov...
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March 13, 2026
‘A Lot of Life Years Lost’: How NAFTA Shortened American Life Spans
A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.
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March 13, 2026
Trump Targets Forced Labor in Global Tariff Scheme
The Trump administration began a trade investigation Thursday into whether dozens of countries have policies to combat forced labor.
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March 12, 2026
U.S. Trade Deficit Falls in January
The data showed imports dipped and exports rose in the month before the Supreme Court struck down most of the president’s tariffs.
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March 11, 2026
Trump Administration to Announce New Trade Investigations
The investigations into unfair trade practices will likely lead to tariffs on foreign countries, as the administration works to replace the import taxes struck down by the Supreme Court.
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March 11, 2026
A Trump-Xi Summit Nears, but China Doesn’t Know What Trump Wants
Trump’s agenda for the high-stakes meeting remains unclear to Beijing, Chinese analysts say, while American executives say they haven’t been invited along.
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March 10, 2026
Has the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Affected You? We Want to Hear About It.
The New York Times is looking to talk to people about the impact that the trade deal between the United States, Canada and Mexico has had on them and their businesses.
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March 5, 2026
U.S. Court Takes First Steps Toward Ordering Tariff Refunds
The Trump administration is likely to appeal the move, as it ramps up its attempt to slow or potentially block the repayment of billions in past duties.
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March 3, 2026
Tariffs Confound Small Businesses Again
Chocolate makers and fig-paste importers are facing a tangle of unknowns, including whether to seek refunds for tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court.
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March 2, 2026
The Unexpected Winners From Trump’s New Global Tariff
The president’s flat 10 percent tariff is most beneficial to nations that previously faced the highest rates. But it’s not clear how much that will prompt a new surge in imports.
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February 24, 2026
Trump’s New Tariffs Could Face Legal Challenges
Critics are questioning the legality of the provision President Trump has used to replace his previous slate of tariffs, raising the prospect of yet another legal battle.
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February 24, 2026
Trump’s Tariffs Go Into Effect at 10 Percent, Not 15
The change surprised executives and foreign leaders, who had been expecting the 15 percent rate the president announced on Saturday.
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February 23, 2026
Trump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken Tariffs
President Trump is already working to piece his tariff program back together, after a Supreme Court ruling ruptured a centerpiece of his economic agenda.
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February 22, 2026
Trump Aides Project Confidence on Tariffs After Court Loss
Administration officials maintain that they can replicate the sky-high duties recently invalidated by the Supreme Court.
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February 21, 2026
Trump’s Trade Gamble Will Continue, Despite Supreme Court Rebuke
The president seems as intent on tariffs as ever and argues that his trade agenda is succeeding, despite little evidence to support it
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February 21, 2026
Trump Says He Will Raise Global Tariff to 15 Percent
The move signaled anew that the president would press ahead with his trade war despite the legal setback from the Supreme Court.
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February 20, 2026
The Trade Statutes Trump Will Use to Keep Imposing Tariffs
The Supreme Court ruling is a blow, but the administration has other trade tools at its disposal.
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February 19, 2026
U.S. Imports Grew in 2025, as Trump’s Tariffs Took Effect
Data released Thursday by the Census Bureau showed the overall trade deficit with the world narrowed, the result of an expanding trade surplus in services.
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February 19, 2026
Trump Mulls a North American Trade Pact Without Canada
U.S. officials are threatening major changes to a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that could upend the way business is done and leave Canada on the outs.
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February 18, 2026
Trump Hails Japan’s First Batch of U.S. Investments
The deals, totaling $36 billion, were the first step in a $550 billion investment pledge aimed at securing tariff relief and sustaining U.S. relations.
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February 16, 2026
The Quiet Architect of Trump’s Global Trade War
Jamieson Greer, a low-key lawyer from a working-class background, is rewriting the rules of the global economy at the president’s behest.
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February 12, 2026
Americans Are Paying the Bill for Tariffs, Despite Trump’s Claims
Research from the New York Fed confirms that U.S. companies and consumers are bearing tariff costs, despite the president’s assertions otherwise.
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