Page 16 - Trade War

Chinese regulators approve Qualcomm's $43 billion merger with NXP

China's review of Qualcomm's largest-ever acquisition has been languishing amid an escalating trade fight between the US and China

India's 80% retaliatory tariff on apples to hit US growers, say Congressmen

For this season, more than 7.7 million boxes valued at more than $118.3 million have been shipped to India

Trade tensions intensify with Donald Trump, allies set for showdown

Investors in Asia appeared little rattled by the talk of war, with stock markets in Japan, China, Australia and South Korea all up in trading on Monday

China opens EU charm offensive to counter Trump's escalation of trade war

China now offers major concessions on trade and investment to the EU and countries such as Japan and Mexico -- all now subject to punitive US tariffs

EU has two options: Confront Donald Trump or avoid costly trade war

Europe would not be spared from the American metals tariffs, its leaders quickly declared they would follow through on threats of retaliation

Trade war: Hollywood hopes for a seat in China's $8.6 bn box office

Chinese negotiators said that opening up the market more for US movies was a concession China could offer to Washington as part of a broader trade deal

Trump's dilemma: What will $100 bn tariff hit next? Wal-Mart or Apple?

Trump's first round of import tariffs deliberately left most consumer electronics untouched

Japanese Finance Minister points to rifts with US over trade tariffs

The divergence over trade was reiterated as the US tries to pursue bilateral negotiations to fix trade imbalances with other nations

Trump trade war could shrink world output by 1%, says ECB's Coeure

Coeure said the prospect of a trade war was not being discussed by the ECB and its effects on inflation would only become visible in the long term

Trade war: WTO's dispute settlement body is slowly being rendered obsolete

Undermining of the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement body does not bode well in view of the trade war

US's trade, IP war with China will hurt both countries: Vice Premier Liu He

China unveiled tariffs on $3 billion of US imports in response to steel and aluminum duties ordered by Trump earlier this month

US-China tit-for-tat tariffs would lift inflation, depress output

Yet even with all that, the betting is that both economies are strong enough to take the hit and keep on growing soundly

When nations decline, rule-makers turn rule-breakers, threaten world order

T N Ninan asks which country is the greater threat to the world system: China or the US?

US protectionism: There are no winners in Donald Trump's trade war

During decades of protectionism via placement of very high customs duties on all sorts of goods, India's domestic industries all turned into monopolies producing shoddy, over-priced goods

Trade war is a lose-lose situation, can push entire world into recession

India's domestic economy could also suffer some ill-effects without necessarily triggering retaliation via higher tariff barriers against Indian goods

Trade war fear spooks markets: Sensex falls 300 points; metal stocks melt

Benchmark indices slump most in nearly a month; Metal stocks melt

Nobody will win in a 'trade war' with US, warns China

US officials bluntly accused China on Saturday of 'stealing our intellectual property'