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President Trump announced deals with Japan, Philippines and Indonesia, but many other countries have yet to clinch agreements.
Chinese and European Union leaders are meeting at a summit in Beijing on Thursday, with trade tensions running high.
The European Commission plans to submit counter-tariffs on 93 billion euros (US$109 billion) of U.S. goods for approval to EU members.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said a trip to China might be “not too distant,” raising prospects that the leaders of the world’s two largest economies may meet soon to help reset relations after moving to climb down from a trade war.
"The EU and China are broadly on a colliding trajectory in terms of their trade and industrial policy concerns," he told CNBC. Bones of contention include the challenge of China's overcapacity and trade diversion to Europe, Stec, who is also head of the Mercator Institute's Brussels office, explained.
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“Rescinding the digital services tax will allow the negotiations of a new economic and security relationship with the United States to make vital progress and reinforce our work to create jobs and build prosperity for all Canadians,” Canadian Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement Sunday night.
This article was originally published on May 22, 2025, and revised to reflect developments through June 3, 2025. It does not reflect developments after June 3. When Indian Prime
America withdrew its troops from Vietnam in 1973 and South Vietnam fell in 1975. The “fall” (or, in the official Vietnamese view the “reunification”) of Saigon was the subject of many 50th anniversary events this past spring on April 30th.
Oil prices steadied in early trading on Wednesday after falling for three consecutive sessions as a U.S. trade deal with Japan signaled progress on tariffs and a poll showed U.S. crude stockpiles fell last week,