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Grain buyers from Japan check out the corn on Rod Pierce's farm near Woodward, Iowa.
Will Iowa farmers benefit from Trump’s newest deals with China and Japan?
A container ship at the port of New Orleans. China is the US’ largest trading partner — the US imported $540 billion worth of goods from China last year.
Trump says trade wars are ‘easy to win.’ (They’re not.)
Sea Eagle Boats in Long Island, NY has been selling inflatable kayaks since 1968. The small company has manufactured its vessels overseas since the company’s inception, and now imports from China. 
Business, Economics and Jobs
Trump’s tariffs are causing major anxiety for the American boating industry
several house democrats celebrating on a stage after their majority house win
Two economic policies likely to change with Democrats in control of House
President Donald Trump, surrounded by business leaders and administration officials, prepares to sign a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China, at the White House in Washington, March 22, 2018.
Economics
Economists to Trump: You’re dead wrong on tariff revenues
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stands along side European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk with EU and Japan flags behind them.
Japan, EU sign free trade pact amid worries about Trump
Kenny Fox at his cattle ranch in Belvidere, South Dakota. Fox, who is a third-generation South Dakota rancher, would like his sons to be able to continue in his footsteps, but worries that the economics are making it too difficult.
Economics
Two South Dakota cattle ranchers, two opinions on NAFTA
trade
Global Politics
US announces steel and aluminum tariffs; German cars could be next
Workers use machines to move containers. The vehicles are dwarfed by tall stacks of containers — piled about six high — on all sides.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Why China can’t meet Trump’s $200 billion trade demand
Alabama employs roughly 3,000 people working with farmed catfish. The domestic industry has been cut in about half over the past 15 years, primarily due to competition from Vietnam.
Economics
The great catfish war rages on
A man is silhouetted against a molten orange background.
Business, Finance & Economics
US open to tariff exemptions for more countries
Democratic Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro at a rally in February 2017. DeLauro has become one of the most outspoken critics of NAFTA in Congress.
Economics
Progressives in Congress side with Trump on trade
North Dakota leads the nation in the production of several crops including: barley, canola, spring wheat, and honey. A low population state, farmers there rely heavily on exports.
Economics
Trump says we’re losing badly with trade. But North Dakota suggests otherwise.
Kevin Christensen looks on as his son, Lane Christensen, sharpens an industrial drill bit. Christensen’s four-person company turned into an international exporter in a matter of months with help from the US Commercial Service.
Economics
The underfunded govt program that got drill bits from rural North Dakota to Zimbabwe
Protesters, many against the fast track trade authority of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, rally outside a hotel in Portland, Oregon.
Economics
Why economists think the Trans-Pacific Partnership will be good for Americans
An Israeli flag is painted on one of the walls on the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza.
Conflict
At the only place where Israel will export things to Gaza, both sides remain at arm’s length
Russian-owned VTB Bank will be impacted by EU sanctions against Russia's economy. A monument of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin stands on the top of a building.
Global Politics
With new sanctions, the EU launches a broad economic attack on Russia
A member of the Kurdish security forces takes up position with his weapon as he guards a section of an oil refinery.
Conflict & Justice
After ISIS advance, Kurds win back important control over northern Iraq’s oil
Vicente Robles in his apple orchards in Bachíniva, Chihuahua.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico is waging war against American apples
Nick Bartman, Counterfeit Expert
Business, Economics and Jobs
Found a deal on a nice bottle of wine in China? Don’t be so sure
Business, Economics and Jobs
NAFTA, 20 years later: Florida tomato farmers struggling with competition
Business, Economics and Jobs
US Senate bill could spark a trade war with China
Business, Economics and Jobs
Mexico challenges calls to ‘Buy American’
Environment
Tension in OPEC as oil prices rise and Saudi Arabia raises concerns
Environment
World energy prices decline
Conflict & Justice
UN Approves First Global Arms Treaty
Why STEM Education Needs the Arts, Too
Students Fight for Colleges to Drop Fossil Fuel Holdings
Congress Passes Free Trade Deals
Top of the Hour: Saudis Push for Increased Oil Prices, Morning Headlines
Business, Economics and Jobs
OPEC Meets Amid Global Uncertainty
US, China Talk Trade and Currencies
Government Weighs Opening Strategic Oil Reserves
WTO Aftermath Roundtable
World Trade Summit: Pearls of a Global Economy
Throwaway Commentary
Environmentalists Promise Fight on Free Trade
The Maquiladoras
Gatt and the Environment
Gatt Fight
CAFTA
WTO Showdown
The Right to Refuse?
Free Trade
Business, Economics and Jobs
The yuan also rises: China may adopt a more flexible exchange rate
Business, Economics and Jobs
Retraining: learning new tricks in a down economy
Global Politics
China to US: I’ll see your tires and raise you chicken parts
Global Politics
China, U.S. in tense tire tariff trade tiff
Environment
Gas exporters meeting in Moscow has some thinking ‘OPEC’
U.S. dollar plunges against the yuan in a volatile market
Business, Economics and Jobs
Oil prices, oil production: OPEC calls meeting to counter falling price of crude
Business, Economics and Jobs
OPEC to cut production as oil prices fall
Business, Economics and Jobs
An OPEC surprise for the oil markets
Business, Economics and Jobs
The big question at OPEC: is the oil market oversupplied?
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer
Environment
OPEC cuts oil production
Environment
Downside of falling oil prices
Business, Economics and Jobs
Bush urges patience
Global Politics
Daniel Drezner