tariffs

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Issues around tariffs, technology restrictions, rare-earth controls and Taiwan are likely to remain on the negotiation track rather than be resolved in one meeting, the strategist added.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Last year, it flexed its economic and diplomatic muscle, responding to Trump with tit-for-tat tariffs and restricting the export of rare earth minerals essential for advanced manufacturing.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

In the nine months following the April 2025 imposition of reciprocal tariffs, Chinese exports to the United States declined by an estimated $109 billion against the 2022-24 baseline.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

Surging gold prices and intermittently high volumes have significantly increased the country’s import bill, but tariffs aren’t going to make much of a difference.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

He had heard talk of tariffs, of slave states and free ones, of a violent old man named John Brown, and during the past winter, of states seceding from the Union.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt