Doug Palmer
Senior Trade Reporter at POLITICO
Tweeting erratically on trade since 2009. I'm also prone to promoting my son's band Sheer Mag and my daughter's podcast Cracked Spines.
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6 days ago |
politico.eu | Ari Hawkins |Doug Palmer
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Thursday that the Trump administration is still pressing the United Kingdom to lift its tax on digital services, calling it a “bad virus.”“We’re still in negotiations,” Navarro told reporters at the White House, after the president unveiled the framework for a trade deal with the U.K. that did not address the issue.
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1 week ago |
politico.eu | Daniel Desrochers |Doug Palmer
President Donald Trump’s top trade officials will hold face-to-face trade talks this weekend with a Chinese economic official for the first time since the U.S. imposed punishing tariffs on China and set off a global trade war. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will meet in Geneva on Saturday and Sunday with Vice Premier He Lifeng, a member of the Chinese Communist Party’s ruling Politburo and China’s top economic official.
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1 month ago |
politico.com | Doug Palmer
The additional 125 percent duty, on top of tariffs on Chinese imports the United States already has in place, could be interpreted as imposing “kind of an embargo on China, like we did in 1950s and 60s,” when Communist Party leader Mao Zedong was in power, said Ed Gresser, a former U.S. trade official who is now at the Progressive Policy Institute, a Democratic think tank.
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1 month ago |
politico.com | Doug Palmer |Benjamin Guggenheim
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1 month ago |
politico.com | Doug Palmer
With help from Ari Hawkins— U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is expected to face intense questions over President Donald Trump’s new tariffs during two appearances this week before key congressional trade committees. — More than 50 countries have called asking for talks to eliminate Trump’s new tariffs, administration officials said.
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RT @USTradeRep: To learn about the methodology behind President Trump's reciprocal tariff calculations, visit USTR's website. https://t.co/…
It was so nice of @WITA_DC to give me and my talented friend @AnaSwanson the Lighthouse award last night for our trade coverage. It was much appreciated and I managed to find a place for it on my mantle among all my wife's teaching awards. But she still has a sizeable lead!
Am told that Biden will nominate William Kimmitt today for empty Republican slot on International Trade Commission. Kimmitt was counselor to USTR Bob Lighthizer during the Trump administration.