China and the European Union (EU) both have an interest in open markets, world-based multilateral trade system. Amid the ...

On 19 July 2025, the EU published its 18th package of sanctions against Russia. The package introduces several new measures and updates in relation ...

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Top officials from the US and China met in Geneva in May [Reuters] The US and China are due to start a fresh round of talks ...

Reminding that rare earths—though representing a tiny slice of India’s import bill—are disproportionately critical for ...

New trade deals between the US and key Southeast Asian economies are reshaping global commerce. While the EU could lose ...

The EU-US trade deal, clinched in a ballroom at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Sunday, has been criticised by ...

The US has been criticising China’s state-backed economic system, which it says floods global markets with cheap goods. Meanwhile, China argues that US export controls are unfairly targeting its tech ...

Oil rose after US President Donald Trump said he would move up the deadline for Russia to agree to a truce in Ukraine, ...

It seems barely a lifetime ago (actually April 9) when Donald Trump suspended for a notional 90 days until August 1 the wrongly named “reciprocal tariffs” he had imposed a week earlier. That merry day ...

Volkswagen Group has faced a 33% decline in its operating profit to €6.7bn ($7.88bn) for the H1 of 2025, compared to the previous year.