President Trump is amping up trade threats, again unveiling a new batch of letters to country leaders outlining tariffs on goods imported from their countries beginning in August and a warning to BRICS nations.

President Donald Trump's second-term economic plan can be summed up in one word: tariffs. As he unleashed a barrage of those import taxes, markets trembled and business leaders sounded alarms about the economic damage they would cause.

Elizabeth Economy of the Hoover Institution says Trump's tariffs policy has been 'political gamesmanship', with no real substance at this stage.

As US President Donald Trump wages a trade war across the globe, a new target has come into his line of fire: the BRICS group of emerging major economies.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that there needed to be a “genuine rebalancing” in the China-Europe relationship.

Carlos Gutierrez, former US Commerce Secretary, says any potential US-China trade deal will be a long-term one, and nothing like the 'mini' deals being settled with other US trading partners – adding that the issue of transshipments from Vietnam will be part of Trump's negotiations with China.

A sourdough baker turned entrepreneur in North Carolina has delayed his new product as he contemplates the prospect that higher costs will doom his company.

An indicator of copper import demand in top consumer China jumped 38% on Wednesday, suggesting robust appetite for the metal, after U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for a 50% import tariff drove down benchmark prices in London.