As Russia’s share of the pie shrank, the United States increased arms exports by 23% in the last five years, helping to make Saudi Arabia the world’s largest arms importer, a Swedish peace group reported Monday.
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The Mexican government delivered to Nigeria on Tuesday an ancient bronze sculpture seized by customs agents at Mexico City airport as its buyer tried to bring it into this country.
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President Donald Trump’s trade war dampened the overseas market for American-made whiskey last year, diminishing exports even as the domestic market continues to thrive.
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Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature unveiled a package of seven bills Monday providing relief to the state’s struggling farmers in the form of tax breaks, a boost to agricultural exports and an enhanced partnership with the University of Wisconsin system.
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U.S. technology companies that build artificial intelligence software for analyzing satellite imagery will face new restrictions on exporting their products to China and elsewhere.
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From Beijing to America’s farm belt, skeptics are questioning just how much U.S. farm goods China has actually committed to buy — and whether U.S. farmers will be able anytime soon to export goods there in the outsize quantities about which President Trump has boasted.
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An indictment unsealed by a Georgia federal judge charges Russian and Italian nationals, a U.S. citizen and several companies in a conspiracy to circumvent American trade sanctions by disguising the destination of drilling equipment.
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Russia and China on Monday launched a giant gas pipeline linking the countries for the first time, one of three major projects aimed at cementing Moscow’s role as the world’s top gas exporter.
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China announced Thursday it will end a nearly five-year ban on the importation of U.S. poultry, a move the Trump administration says could boost U.S. poultry exports by more than $1 billion.
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The German economy is slowing down — and possibly entering a recession — and that’s giving rise to calls for the economic locomotive of Europe to start spending more to ward off a crisis.
Read moreA trade conflict between the United States and Europeans got uglier Friday after the Trump administration imposed new tariffs on an array of European goods, many of them luxury items like Scotch malt whiskeys, Italian gourmet cheeses, expensive French wines and Spanish olives.
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China on Wednesday announced it will exempt American industrial grease and some other imports from tariff hikes in a trade war with Washington but kept in place penalties on soybeans and other major U.S. exports before negotiations next month.
Read moreAccusing them of helping North Korea’s illegal ship-to-ship transfers to circumvent U.N. sanctions on Pyongyang petroleum, the United States announced penalties Friday against multiple firms and individuals in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Read moreFrance’s wine output is expected to fall 12% this year, the agriculture ministry said Friday, after spring frosts followed by summer heat waves took a heavy toll on vineyards across the country.
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U.S. lobster exports to China have fallen by more than 80% this year as China’s retaliatory tariffs shift the seafood business farther north to Canada.
Read moreExport-reliant Chinese companies are slashing prices, moving production abroad, creating new domestic markets and rebranding goods as they try to survive the escalating trade war with the United States.
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced an agreement with Brussels on trade in American beef, long blocked from EU markets over concerns about use of hormones.
Read moreAmid rising international tensions, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is ordering new sanctions on Iran’s industrial metal exports.
Read moreAmerica is still sending millions of pounds of lobster to China, but members of the seafood industry remain on edge about the future of the United States’ relationship with one of its most important customers.
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