The US government has threatened 25 percent duties on 0 billion worth of Chinese imports.
The US seafood industry also urged USTR to avoid a tariff war with China. The National Fisheries Institute, Pacific Seafood Processors and the At-Sea Processors Association warned the USTR that any sanctions against China's seafood industry would "badly harm" US seafood exporters, harvesters and processors.
The US Federal Reserve is expected to announce Friday that industrial production declined a seasonally adjusted 11.1 percent in April, the sharpest monthly decline in more than 100 years.
The US move came hours after the DPRK fired two projectiles toward the sea, the second weapons launch in five days. Some critics saw the launch as a possible signal that stalled talks over its nuclear weapons program are in trouble.
The US-Taliban deal was signed in Gulf state of Qatar on Feb 29, and Kabul and Washington issued a joint declaration the same day.
The US Chamber of Commerce, the nation's largest business group and customarily a close ally of President?Donald Trump's?Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump's trade tariff policies.
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The US administration's plan to exit from the WHO marks the latest US departure from multinational institutions and treaties since Trump took office with an "America First" agenda.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has warned of a new wave of locusts coming across the Indian Ocean from Somalia just as farmers are planting an array of summer crops.
The United States unveiled its new Africa strategy last month based on "America First" principles. US National Security Adviser John Bolton said the strategy has been designed to counter the financial and political influence of China and Russia.
The US has tamped down the previous high expectation of a swift denuclearization and instead talked about a process that will take time. But Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted on Monday that the ultimate goal is for a complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.