Articles Tagged with ''Tariffs''

Nine months into his second term, the administration has deployed tariffs on almost every U.S. trading partner. But how much additional agricultural market access has been negotiated so far?

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the administration could undertake targeted retaliation over China’s ongoing refusal to buy U.S. soybeans, including by limiting imports of Chinese cooking oil.

New U.S. fees kick in today on Chinese-made or operated vessels, just days after Beijing imposed fees on U.S. vessels. But as a new front opens in the China-U.S. trade war, the potential impacts on global shipping remain difficult to decipher, an analyst says.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he will impose a new 100% tariff on imports from China starting Nov. 1 following Beijing’s decision to tighten exports of critical minerals. The fresh flare-up of U.S.-China tensions leaves a planned meeting between the two countries’ leaders at the end of the month in jeopardy.

A bipartisan group of senators is challenging President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration underpinning his “reciprocal” tariffs on almost every U.S. trading partner.

Farm-state senators want a second round of farm aid in coming months that can be combined with other measures to help farmers, including legislation dealing with fertilizer prices. 

Republican Sen. Rand Paul, Ky., told reporters on Wednesday that farm state GOP lawmakers should be much louder in pushing back against the administration’s trade policy.

U.S. farmers are balancing worries about current conditions with optimism for future policy support, as producer sentiment rose one point in September, according to the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. 

The Trump administration has quietly moved some $13 billion from a fund used to deliver tariff assistance to farmers in President Trump’s first term to the Agriculture Secretary’s office.

Top Senate Ag Committee appropriator Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told reporters Friday that the ongoing government shutdown could force the administration to delay unveiling tariff support to farmers.