Tag: Tariffs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Straining to stave off threatened U.S. tariffs, Mexican and American officials claimed progress in White House talks, but President Donald Trump said today that a “lot of progress” must be made to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare confrontation, Republican senators are declaring deep opposition to President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on all goods coming into the U.S. from Mexico. But it’s unclear they have the votes…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended his decisions to impose or raise tariffs against imports from Mexico and China, respectively, saying “companies are moving to the U.S.” to avoid paying the levies. Widening trade tension…

So we’re going to tax Americans until Mexico stops allowing people from Central America to exercise their legal right to seek admission to the United States? Seems pretty foolproof. President Trump announced Thursday evening on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mexico launched a counteroffensive today against the threat of U.S. tariffs, warning not only that it hurt the economies of both countries but also would allow a quarter million more Central Americans…

The surprise announcement by President Donald Trump of an escalating tariff regime against Mexico sent ripples through almost every economic sector in the U.S., hammering American companies that sell automobiles or run railroads, grow vegetables…

The headline from the Hutchinson News brought good news for Kansas: This year’s wheat crop looks promising, even though its development has been slowed by cool weather this spring. The wheat crop and agriculture in…

Editor’s note: Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, circulated a letter he recently penned to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. We thought it worth printing.   Dear Secretary Perdue, I write to express my continued concerns regarding…

President Trump often cites the stock market as proof of his economic-policy success, so let’s hope he was watching the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday. The Dow fell 2.38%, and the Nasdaq and Russell…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday there was “no need to rush” to get a trade deal with China, hours after he raised tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, escalating a battle…