International Trade

A group of global trade chiefs are meeting to start setting a reform agenda for the World Trade Organization, though it’s unclear how far they can take the effort with the U.S. and China excluded from talks.

The airline industry should prepare for chaos if no trade agreement is signed in the coming weeks for the U.K.’s planned split from the European Union, the head of the sector’s trade body has warned.

U.S. companies are scrambling to line up factories and suppliers outside of China as the trade war hikes the cost of importing everything from furniture to toilet paper. But for some products, it’s not that easy.

U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter in July to blast Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in ALL CAPS for “demented words of violence.”

Companies and business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ramped up their spending on lobbying during the third quarter, as they sought to contain the damage from President Donald Trump’s trade war.