tariffs

Canada canceled a digital service tax on U.S. technology companies last weekend order to preserve trade talks with President Donald Trump, but another irritant, in agriculture, could be a bigger thorn in the ongoing negotiations.

Since the Trump Administration established tariffs against some of our closest trading partners, the farming community has felt the financial squeeze.

Farmers aren’t the only ones that can have a difficult time navigating around tariffs. Equipment manufacturers are feeling the pressure as well.

Trade negotiations between the United States and India have reached a "major impasse", casting doubt on prospects for a bilateral agreement by July 9th.

United States and China tensions and the resulting tariffs cost U.S. farmers $2 billion in lost exports this year

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently said the clock is ticking on a 30-day schedule for the U.S. to put a trade deal framework in place with Canada, with that deadline set at July 21st.  Carney also said his government has a plan in place if that deadline is not met.  Ca...

After staying in the low- to mid-$60 per barrel range for the past several weeks, oil prices jumped up north of $70, thanks to the back-and-forth airstrikes between Israel and Iran.  Patrick DeHaan with Gasbuddy.com said this is the latest in a long list of issues that investors have had to digest this year, including tariffs, trade wars, and Russia/Ukraine.   “...

President Trump recently signed an order that doubled tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum products from 25% to 50%, to take effect immediately for the American market.  The U.S. is the largest importer of steel in the world after the European Union and is the world’s largest aluminum importer. It currently gets m...

Oil prices have held steady for the past couple of months, thanks to economic news that seems to balance itself out; for everyone one story pushing oil prices up, we get another pulling those prices down.  However, things have changed to start this week, with oil prices moving up to the mid-$60 range for the first time in weeks. Patrick ...

Tariffs put in place by President Trump will take a big bite out of U.S. deficit levels, reducing them by $2.5 trillion over the next decade and shrinking the size of the U.S. economy.  A Congressional Budget Office analysis shows that the deficit reduction is almost exactly the same size as the deficit addition that would result from the GOP’s “Big, Beautiful Bill.”   New Analysis ...