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President Trump kicked off three days of meetings in Canada, saying 'our primary focus will be trade,' but with minimal evidence of progress to offer on long-promised deals.
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President Donald Trump is hailing the latest trade framework with China as a game-changing breakthrough. Yet the deal he touted Wednesday represents little more than a reset back to earlier terms — and even that came at a cost.
President Trump kicked off three days of meetings in Canada, saying 'our primary focus will be trade,' but with minimal evidence of progress to offer on long-promised deals.
President Donald Trump's eventful week included securing a preliminary trade deal with China, deploying National Guard troops to Los Angeles, and responding to Israel's strikes on Iran.
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China was still closed and outside of the trading system. The largest developing country with manufacturing exports was Taiwan. When China joined the United Nations in October 1971, Taiwan was no longer listed in the reports on world trade in manufacturers.
While Donald Trump hailed the outcome of trade talks in London, Xi Jinping walked away with an understated strategic gain: a negotiating process that buys China time and helps defuse the threat of more harmful tariffs and technology curbs.
US stock futures pulled back on Thursday as Wall Street assessed President Trump's evolving trade policy as well as softening inflation. On Wednesday, Trump said that he would send letters to trading partners within a week or two setting unilateral tariff rates.