Lutnick will oversee 50,000 employees who do everything from collecting economic statistics to running the census to issuing ...

Many economists disagree. “Defining a VAT to be a trade barrier isn’t just questionable economics (the VAT is the same on imports and domestic production), it also basically forecloses ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has tasked his economics team with devising ... the cost of these non-monetary trade barriers," Trump said. Simple average and trade ...

In its latest Economic Bulletin ... to firms frontloading imports in anticipation of potential new tariffs or trade barriers. "Greater friction in global trade could weigh on euro area growth ...

Pressed in an interview on MSNBC about reciprocal tariffs driving up inflation, National Economic Council Director ... dispute the idea that VATs are a trade barrier, saying they are merely ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- Africa has faced entrenched structural barriers that keep countries on the continent in a cycle of economic dependency ... slave trade and colonial exploitation ...

For all the latest on economics and business from The Telegraph ... with our trading partners to lower their tariffs and trade barriers as opposed to increasing our own.” Ms Smith previously ...

The ECB sees rising trade frictions and regulatory barriers as risks to eurozone growth, with US trade policy uncertainty and ...

Barriers to free trade, such as tariffs, have a negative impact on our economic well-being. Tariffs are normally paid at the border by the company importing the good or service, not the exporter. It’s ...

"Trade wars are good, and easy to win," Donald Trump said in 2018 – and he has begun his second term launching one against ...

In an address to the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit in Toronto on February 7, Trudeau said that all of Canada’s premiers agree that internal trade barriers need to be eliminated. “We have to move ...