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WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 02: U.S. Treasury Scott Bessent arrives to the U.S. Capitol on April 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. Bessent met with Senate Republicans ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement on a new round of tariffs. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Bessent strikes defiant tariff tone as he rejects US recession

By Shawn Donnan and Bloomberg

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 3, 2025.

Tariff ‘earthquake’ sends shipping industry into crisis mode

By Laura Curtis, Shawn Donnan, and others

President Joe Biden speaks at the United Steelworkers Headquarters in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Biden hails the U.S. as the ‘strongest economy in the world’ but its hot inflation is angering allies as their currencies flop: ‘I don’t want to be impolite, but…’

By Enda Curran, Shawn Donnan, and others

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. For the first time since 2016, CGI will convene alongside the United Nations General Assembly. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Melinda French Gates urges bold action from world leaders gathered in Paris to tackle poor nations’ debt woes

By Margaret Collins, Shawn Donnan, and others

A British Airways Boeing 787 lands at London Heathrow Airport on 28th October 2020 (Photo by Robert Smith/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

To try and secure a U.S. trade deal, U.K. says it will drop EU tariffs linked to Boeing and Airbus dispute

By Joe Mayes, Shawn Donnan, and others

Coronavirus in U.S.: COVID-19 case surge to continue for weeks

Experts: Get used to the surge in new U.S. coronavirus cases

By Shawn Donnan and Bloomberg

U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he arrives on Air Force One at Orlando Sanford International Airport on March 9, 2020 in Sanford, Florida. Trump is scheduled to attend a private fundraiser in the area. (Photo by Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Aboard the Air Force One flight that shook Trump into action on the coronavirus

By Justin Sink, Saleha Mohsin, and others

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Trump prepares to sign ‘beautiful monster’ Phase One trade deal with China

By Shawn Donnan, Jenny Leonard, and others

The U.S. and China struck a trade deal that will keep new tariffs from being imposed on Chinese products

U.S. and China Agree to a ‘Phase One’ Trade Deal

By Jenny Leonard, Shawn Donnan, and others

Garment Manufacturing at The Rajlakshmi Cotton Mills Ltd. Factory

U.S. Wins WTO Case Against India Over its $7 Billion in Export Subsidies

By Brendan Murray, Shawn Donnan, and others

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (C) gestures as he chats with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He (R) as US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) looks on after posing for a "family photo" at the Xijiao Conference Centre in Shanghai on July 31, 2019. - Chinese and US negotiators held talks in Shanghai on July 31 in a bid to bring an end to a year-long trade war, with the meeting overshadowed by a Twitter tirade from President Donald Trump. (Photo by Ng Han Guan / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read NG HAN GUAN/AFP/Getty Images)

China and the U.S. Have Agreed on the First Face-to-Face Trade Talks Since July. No One Expects a Breakthrough

By Josh Wingrove, Miao Han, and others

House Financial Services Committee Holds Hearing On Keeping Megabanks Accountable

Bernie Sanders Taunts Jamie Dimon After JPMorgan Chase CEO Knocks Socialism

By David Scheer, Shawn Donnan, and others

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Trump Just Delayed Auto Tariffs on the EU and Japan. Here’s Why

By Jenny Leonard, Shawn Donnan, and others

President Donald Trump Welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban To The White House

Are Tariffs the Real End-Goal of Trump’s Trade Agenda?

By Shawn Donnan and Bloomberg

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U.S.-China Trade War Heats Up As Trump Launches Higher Tariffs

By Shawn Donnan, Jennifer Jacobs, and others