3/14/2017

HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the biggest mysteries in global markets so far in the Trump era is the historically low level of volatility that has prevailed despite all the turmoil and uncertainty that analysts warned his victory would unleash. Shares of hospitals and health insurers fall after the U.S. Congressional Budget Office forecasts […]

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3/14/2017

POLITICS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump’s nominee for U.S. Trade Representative tells U.S. senators he agrees with Trump’s call for an ‘America First’ trade policy with better-negotiated trade deals and stronger enforcement of U.S. trade laws.” -Bill Trott, “Highlights: The Trump presidency on March 14 at 3:05 p.m. ET,” Reuters, March 14, 2017 […]

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3/12/2017

TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republican lawmakers are showing increasing resistance to President Donald Trump’s trade agenda, worried that his plans could hurt exports from their states and undermine longstanding U.S. alliances. The concerns indicate that the biggest threat to Mr. Trump’s trade policy—which emphasizes new bilateral deals and a tougher stance against countries blamed for […]

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3/08/2017

ECONOMY/TRADE DEALS/TREASURY: “The Trump administration plans to press Japan, Germany and other nations with which the U.S. has large trade deficits, to buy more U.S.-made commercial and military products as a way to boost jobs and reduce the nation’s $500 billion trade deficit. ‘Any country we have a significant trade deficit with needs to work […]

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3/1/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/TRADE DEALS/WTO: “The Trump administration Wednesday [3-1-17] sent its strongest signal yet that it was prepared to buck the international trade order, including confronting the World Trade Organization, to assertively defend the economic interests and sovereignty of the United States. In a mandated annual report to Congress outlining the president’s trade agenda, the administration […]

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2/24/2017

FOREIGN POLICY/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS: “Mexico does not need financial aid from the United States, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said on Friday, after President Donald Trump ordered a report on U.S. assistance to its southern neighbor over the last five years. Mexican officials gave a cool reception to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and […]

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2/23/2017

JOBS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At a meeting Thursday [2-23-17] with the country’s top manufacturing executives, President Trump made a puzzling statement about trade. ‘We don’t have any good deals. In fact, I am trying to find a country where we actually have a surplus — surplus of trade. Everything is a deficit,’ he said. ‘I […]

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2/21/2017

BUSINESS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald J. Trump has cast himself as the anti-globalist president. But Donald Trump, the businessman, is a different story. During the campaign, Mr. Trump’s organization continued to file dozens of new trademarks, in China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union and Indonesia, and one of his companies applied for trademark protection in the […]

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2/13/2017

CANADA/JUSTIN TRUDEAU/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump said he seeks only modest changes in the U.S. trade relationship with Canada, pledging that the two nations would continue to work together on cross-border commerce and security issues. Following meetings on Monday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mr. Trump said the U.S. would be ‘tweaking’ […]

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2/3/2017

TAXES/TRADE DEALS: “Countries charge U.S. companies taxes or tariffs while the U.S. charges them nothing or little.We should charge them SAME as they charge us!”  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 3, 2017 10:07pm […]

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1/26/2017

MEXICO/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP POSITION CHANGES: “President Trump will call for a 20 percent tax on Mexican imports in the hopes of raising billions of dollars to help construct a controversial wall along the southern border of the United States — a move likely to ratchet up the tension between the two nations.”  –Halimah Abdullah and Suzanne […]

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1/23/2017

TTP/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP MEMORANDA: “Presidential Memorandum Regarding Withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement It is the policy of my Administration to represent the American people and their financial well-being in all negotations, particularly the American worker, and to create fair and economically beneficial trade deals that serve their interests. Additionally, […]

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6/27/2015

BORDER/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS: “Only very stupid people think that the United States is making good trade deals with Mexico.Mexico is killing us at the border and at trade!”  – 6/27/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 6/27/2015 […]

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6/25/2015

BORDER/MEDIA/MEXICO/TRADE DEALS: “Mexican gov doesn’t want me talking about terrible border situation & horrible trade deals. Forcing Univision to get me to stop- no way!”  – 6/25/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 6/25/2015 […]

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6/25/2015

MEXICO/TRADE DEALS: “I love Mexico but not the unfair trade deals that the US so stupidly makes with them. Really bad for US jobs, only good for Mexico.”  – 6/25/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 6/25/2015 […]

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5/4/2015

CONGRESS/OBAMA/TRADE DEALS: “Congress was elected last November to reign Obama in, not to give him ‘fast track’ authority for bad trade deals for the American worker!”  – 5/4/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 5/4/2015 […]

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7/3/2013

DONALD ON DONALD/TRADE: “Our trade deficit just jumped in May to ‘the second-highest level on record’. FAIR trade, not free trade. I TOLD YOU.” http://t.co/aENXRcvMWg  – 7/3/2013, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 7/3/2013 […]

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2/16/2012

CHINA/TRADE DEALS: “Yesterday China VP Xi stressed ‘the benefits of trade with China’ to Congress http://t.co/DnjmzKZv We need FAIR TRADE with China!” [4:33:30 PM]  – 2/16/2012, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, 2/16/2012 […]

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2/13/2012

TRADE DEALS: ” ‘It’s a plain fact: free trade requires having fair rules that apply to everyone.’ #TimeToGetTough http://amzn.to/xgLEDN http://bit.ly/wNYhAc” [4:19:30 PM]  – 2/13/2012, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, Twitlonger.com, 2/13/2012 […]

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12/20/2011

TRADE DEALS: ” ‘It’s a plain fact: free trade requires having fair rules that apply to everyone.’ #TimeToGetTough” [11:51:21 AM]  – 12/20/2011, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Trumptwitterarchive.com, 12/20/2011 […]

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