Articles Tagged with ''Tariffs''

The U.S. is on the cusp of finalizing trade pacts with four central and south American countries, the White House says, after both sides published joint statements on the forthcoming deals Thursday. 

The longest government shutdown in history is nearing an end after Senate negotiators agreed on a new stopgap spending bill. The Senate voted Sunday night to advance the legislation, clearing the path for approval, despite the opposition of most Democrats. 

Beijing on Friday announced it will reinstate export licenses for three U.S. soybean exporters and lift a ban on U.S. logs.

USDA must make the full amount of SNAP funding needed for this month available to states today, a federal judge ruled late Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs faced tough questions at the Supreme Court yesterday.

President Donald Trump and senior administration officials are reinforcing the administration’s arguments for why the U.S. needs emergency tariffs, after a bruising hearing at the Supreme Court. Legal analysts, however, say the justices appear broadly skeptical of Trump's case.

Multiple Supreme Court justices, including some conservatives, expressed skepticism at oral arguments Wednesday that President Donald Trump can impose across-the-board tariffs using a 1977 law that doesn't even mention the word.

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered USDA to use its Supplemental Nutrition Assistance contingency fund to make payments to the approximately 42 million Americans who lost SNAP benefits on Nov. 1.

President Donald Trump says he has a one-year agreement with China that will include “tremendous” sales of U.S. ag commodities. He didn’t provide any details of the Chinese pledge to reporters after his 90-minute meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday in South Korea.

President Donald Trump says that Beijing has committed to buying “tremendous” amounts of U.S. ag products after he secured a one-year deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping in exchange for lower U.S. tariffs.