• April 22 2025
  Europe Express

  Brussels warms to efforts to organise summit with Trump Premium content

  Also in this newsletter: MEPs urge the EU to cover gap left by US aid cuts in Ukraine

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• April 22 2025
  LexAutomobiles

  Japan carmakers’ US success could become a liability Premium content

  Navigating tariffs poses challenges for groups once welcomed as contributors to local jobs and economic growth

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• April 22 2025
  Ecommerce

  India under tariff pressure to give Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart full market access

  Trade talks set to discuss giving US ecommerce giants a level playing field with local rivals

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• April 22 2025
  US Treasury bonds

  Japanese investors sold $20bn of foreign debt as Trump tariffs shook markets

  Pension funds likely to have offloaded US bonds because of tumble in Wall Street stocks, investors say

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• April 22 2025
  News in-depthOil & Gas industry

  Trump tariff talk roils US oil industry in bedrock Republican territory

  North Dakota was a pioneer in the shale boom but now finds itself wrestling with falling prices amid trade war rhetoric

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• April 21 2025
  OutlookPatti Waldmeir

  Illinois farmers focus on planting rather than Trump tariffs

  Veterans of the trade wars, they know a great deal could change before the harvest

  
• April 21 2025
  Chris Giles

  The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes

  America is not the powerhouse it once was

  
• April 21 2025
  Trade Secrets

  Trading partners ponder the art of fobbing Trump off with a weak deal Premium content

  Governments are hoping they can offer symbolic gains to make the US president go away

  
• April 21 2025
  Private equity

  China pulls back from US private equity investments

  Industry executives report change of approach as Beijing bears brunt of Trump’s tariffs

  
• April 21 2025
  US-China trade dispute

  Beijing warns countries not to act against China in trade deals with US

  Commerce ministry acts amid concerns that Washington will push trade partners to isolate Chinese goods and businesses

  
• April 21 2025
  News in-depthUS retail

  US thrift stores bank on windfall from Trump’s tariffs

  Second-hand goods could be in vogue when levies lift prices for imports, analysts say

  
• April 21 2025
  Pharmaceuticals sector

  US tariffs on pharmaceuticals risk shortages of lower-cost generic drugs

  Vast majority of drugs prescribed in America are off-patent generics made in lower-cost countries

  
• April 21 2025
  Ruchir Sharma

  Mapping the high tariff world

  How the trade war will reorder the global economy — not burn it down

  
• April 21 2025
  The Economics Show podcast32 min listen

  Martin Wolf talks to David Autor: could AI be a bigger threat to US jobs than China?

  Automation will disrupt American jobs more widely than China ever did

  
• April 21 2025
  Global InsightJohn Reed

  Trump threat awakens India’s ‘big bang’ spirit

  Parallels are being drawn between the US tariff war and the external shock that kick-started the Indian economy in 1991

  
• April 20 2025
  Global Economy

  Global confidence slumps as trade turmoil looms over IMF meetings

  Tariff shock and market slide are among rising threats to growth, Brookings-FT Tiger index shows

  
• April 20 2025
  UK trade

  Reeves to press case for global free trade in US talks

  Chancellor also hopes to get better tariff deal for UK in meeting with Treasury secretary Scott Bessent

  
• April 20 2025
  Rana Foroohar

  Tariffs without industrial policy won’t work

  It’s a lesson that the White House should learn if it wants to build up manufacturing in America

  
• April 20 2025
  Trump tariffs

  DHL suspends some parcel deliveries to US amid trade war

  German group is first major commercial logistics company to take action after new tariffs come into force

  
• April 20 2025
  Markets

  How much are tariffs weighing on US companies?

  Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

  
• April 20 2025
  US-China trade dispute

  Trump’s tariff war comes to New York’s Chinatown

  Chinese American small businesses are stockpiling goods to delay higher costs

  
• April 20 2025
  Rare earths

  China’s rare earths controls prompt fears of auto shortages and shutdowns

  Traders and executives warn of limited inventories and a risk of disruption to automotive production

  
• April 20 2025
  InterviewSouth Korea politics & policy

  South Korea will not ‘fight’ Trump’s tariffs, says acting president

  Han Duck-soo says Seoul owes historical debt and is open to dropping trade barriers ahead of talks with Washington

  
• April 20 2025
  Chinese business & finance

  China tech groups lead multibillion-dollar campaign to help exporters sell at home

  Alibaba, JD.com and Tencent among those aiding switch to domestic sales in national movement influenced by Beijing

  
• April 19 2025
  Trump tariffs

  Trump tariffs bring furrowed brows to Ireland’s Botox town

  Westport makes the world’s entire supply of the anti-wrinkle drug — now it fears production could move to the US

  

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