Lazaro Gamio

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Ana Swanson |Lazaro Gamio

President Trump's steep global tariffs have supercharged efforts to evade them. Some U.S. companies say the government is ill-equipped to keep up. The vice president of marketing and government affairs at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry, a 124-year-old manufacturer based in Charlotte, N.C., described the U.S. government's efforts to shut down Chinese companies engaging in trade fraud as "a game of Whac-a-mole." Credit...

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Ana Swanson |Lazaro Gamio

Tourists from around the world boycott America over Trump's tariffs and two nationalities lead the no-showsTourism season this year might look a little different in the U.S. with people from several countries opting to skip out on visiting the …

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Lazaro Gamio |Pablo Robles

The escalating trade war between the United States and China has created deep uncertainty for U.S. companies that rely on Chinese suppliers. Retaliations in recent days by the two countries have resulted in huge average tax rates on their each other's imports, with tariffs often costing more than the price of the goods themselves. But because of an ever-changing patchwork of trade rules, not every product will be charged an astronomical tariff, trade lawyers, customs brokers and importers say.

2 months ago | news.nestia.com | Lazaro Gamio |Samuel Granados |Lauren Leatherby

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Lazaro Gamio |Samuel Granados |Lauren Leatherby

For now, most world leaders are trying to bargain their way out of the sweeping new American tariffs. Just two of the 20 largest exporters to the United States have countered them with new tariffs of their own. One was China, which said Friday that it would impose a 34 percent import tax on products coming from the United States. That prompted escalation from the Trump administration: Rescind the tax, it warned, or American tariffs on China would go up another 50 percent.