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27 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 24, 2026.
WatchXi Jinping's first White House visit in more than a decade brought fighter-jet flyovers, a pledge of two pandas for Atlanta and talk of AI "always under human control." Trump ignored shouted questions about Taiwan and Jimmy Lai.
Trump will meet Xi at the airport himself. The summit is the two leaders' second face-to-face of the year after May's meeting in Beijing, and it lands as an existing trade truce nears expiry and as the administration weighs what, if anything, to ask Beijing on AI safety.
Seventy percent of Canadian exports still go to the United States. Ottawa is exploring visa-free living and working rights in Europe and an 'Alliance for the Future' covering defense, minerals, AI and the Arctic.
Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation doubling the price of large or thermal-imaging drones and their components. Smaller civilian models get 25%.
A court filing shows the Treasury has refunded about 60% of the duties the Supreme Court struck down in February — almost all of it to corporate importers, not households.
The Section 232 proclamation sets minimum import prices of $21 a kilogram for raw polysilicon and 38 cents a watt for solar modules, and takes effect December 4.
Four people familiar with the effort told Reuters the administration wants to bar imports of new Chinese models of the devices that shuttle data over fiber inside data centers. China's Zhongji Innolight holds a 27% global share.
The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, argues the administration stretched Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act past its breaking point to impose duties on 60 economies.
The additions to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list cover aluminum, apparel, copper, cotton and tomato producers and push the total to 187 blocked entities. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the companies use 'slave labor.'
The White House has prepared duties of 10% to 12.5% on dozens of trading partners over forced-labor concerns, replacing a temporary blanket tariff that lapses this week after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier trade agenda.
The duties, taking effect July 22 under Section 301, follow a yearlong probe into Brazil's digital-trade, ethanol and deforestation policies, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio blaming President Lula for refusing to 'negotiate in good faith.'
Citing a Section 301 investigation into goods made with forced labor, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer proposed duties spanning Canada to China — months after the Supreme Court struck down the president's earlier tariff regime.
The White House and Beijing released competing fact sheets Sunday detailing the summit's tangible outcomes — agricultural purchases, aircraft orders, and a partial unwinding of rare-earth export controls — but no deal on Taiwan, TikTok, fentanyl or Iran.
After two days of summitry in the Zhongnanhai compound, the U.S. president said China agreed to buy 200 Boeing jets and resume agricultural purchases — but Beijing's post-summit readout made no mention of any trade deal, the war in Iran, or Taiwan.
Dow falls sharply Friday as investors express concern over lack of substantive agreements between U.S. and China leaders.
The lack of concrete agreements with Beijing highlights the risks of President Trump's personality-driven foreign policy approach.
President announces massive aircraft purchase during Beijing summit, signaling potential thaw in commercial relations.
Despite conciliatory gestures at summit, fundamental disagreements over trade and Taiwan remain unresolved.
The president who promised the toughest trade stance on China in history has been forced to moderate his approach amid mounting economic pressures.
The landlocked body of water takes on new significance as Russia ships military and commercial goods to bolster Tehran's ability to withstand American assault.
Panel of federal judges rules president lacks authority to impose sweeping tariffs on most imports without congressional approval.
A federal refund portal opens April 20 following the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling that the emergency tariffs were unconstitutional — and businesses that paid billions in duties want their money back.
A 5-4 ruling found the administration exceeded its emergency economic powers, but the baseline 10% universal tariff survives and inflation from trade barriers remains embedded in consumer prices.
The executive order, the most sweeping ever against foreign drug manufacturers, gives companies 120 days to either strike pricing deals with HHS or face the full tariff.
The EU finalized free trade agreements with both Mercosur and India while Canada reached a landmark deal with China, accelerating a structural realignment of global commerce that analysts say will take decades to reverse.
WatchThe Court ruled the president lacked authority under IEEPA to impose sweeping import levies, sending markets surging and forcing the White House to scramble for alternative legal strategies.
Generations of Indian workers and businesses built vital economic ties with Gulf states now disrupted by ongoing Middle East conflict.