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Cheap Chinese TVs may just get lot more expensive amid trade war

Bloomberg TVs bearing labels like Hisense or TCL have long been the go-to for bargain-hunters scouring Best Buy for deals. That may change real soon. Nestled among the thousands of knick-knacks, paraphernalia and foodstuffs Donald Trump’s targeting in his next salvo of punitive tariffs are a plethora of components and gear essential to televisions and displays — including the cubic ...

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China, US impose tariffs on trade flows that don’t exist

Bloomberg Natural gas, the cleanest and fastest-growing fossil fuel, has found itself in perhaps the oddest corner of the multi-billion dollar trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. When the US added duties to $34 billion of Chinese goods last month, China retaliated with its own list that included piped natural gas from the US. And when President Donald ...

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Trump, Merkel trade barbs over Russia’s pipeline issue

Bloomberg Donald Trump and Angela Merkel got off to a prickly start at a NATO summit as the US president blasted Germany over its support for a gas pipeline from Russia, prompting a tart response from the chancellor. “It’s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where we’re supposed to be guarding against Russia ...

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