Trade
Biden preparing to block Nippon Steel $22 billion takeover of US Steel
The deal would have created the third-largest global steelmaker in a bid to compete with Chinese rivals on the global stage.
- by Josh Wingrove
Latest
Opinion
Inside China
Xi Jinping has no plan B as the mood in China darkens
China’s economic mess is weighing heavily on Australia and the rest of the world. Added to Beijing’s concerns is the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Opinion
US Votes 2024
What will happen to your mortgage if ‘tariff man’ Trump wins the White House
Many countries would respond to Trump’s tariff hike with tit-for-tat trade restrictions. That would increase the cost of goods and services traded internationally, stoking inflation.
- by Matt Wade
Exclusive
Donald Farrell
‘Don’t target Australia’: Fears of Biden administration trade sanctions
A fresh front on the trade wars is coming from a surprising quarter.
- by Peter Hartcher
Opinion
Inside China
What Australia needs from China – more building, more babies
China’s deflating property bubble and declining birth rate are, at last, grabbing the attention of Treasurer Jim Chalmers.
- by Elizabeth Knight
An expensive future made in Australia: Warnings on $23 billion plan
Governments around the world, including Australia, are using taxpayers’ money to support emerging industries. Now there are warnings these programs may achieve little.
- by Shane Wright
Whiskey wars: US distillers warn Australia to stick to spirit of the law
Complaints about Australian distillers mislabelling products as whiskey and bourbon risk triggering a trade dispute with the United States.
- by Andrew Taylor
Penfolds hikes prices in bid to reclaim top billing in China
Treasury Wine Estates is doubling headcount in China to re-establish the Penfolds brand as China’s top luxury drop – and has flagged global price increases.
- by Jessica Yun
Opinion
Globalisation
Globalisation might be worsening inequality, but I’m OK with that
It’s important to look at exactly how globalisation has tipped the scale when it comes to equality.
- by Millie Muroi
China drops its beef with Australia over meat exports
But even as the agriculture sector praised the federal government for the lifting of restrictions, Labor faces a fight over a proposed ban on live sheep exports.
- by Mike Foley
Opinion
Gold
Mystery gold buyer is betting on geopolitical and financial mayhem
A powerful force is stalking the world’s gold market. It is operating in the shadows. Is somebody preparing for an escalation of the shadow Third World War?
- by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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