China resumed buying U.S. soybeans, bringing some relief to farmers in Donald Trump’s heartland as President Xi Jinping works toward a trade deal with his American counterpart.
U.S. firms operating in Asia are adapting to global trade uncertainty with a range of survival tactics, from reviewing how goods are classified to tweaking their supply chains.
Americans generate 25 percent more trash during the holidays and, historically, that’s been a gift to the companies that sell it to recycling processors overseas.
China is the world’s largest beer market, and consumers are increasingly shifting to premium and foreign brews from mass-market brands amid rising incomes.
On the same day Donald Trump and Xi Jinping struck a trade war truce, Canadian authorities made an arrest that now threatens to make the U.S.-China conflict much worse.
Differences on difficult issues such as Chinese industrial policy and intellectual property regimes remain vast — and tough negotiations now lie ahead.
News reports about the raging trade war between China and the U.S. have largely focused on the issue of tariffs. But there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes.