Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s administration is setting up its trade policy to prioritise enforcement of existing commitments by the US’s partners over negotiating more deals to open new export markets. Biden’s likely strategy for supporting American producers focuses on going after violations via dialogue, work with allies and use of dispute-resolution mechanisms in existing trade agreements rather than following the ...

Bloomberg Russian prosecutors demanded opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s imprisonment, a day after police detained record numbers of protesters against President Vladimir Putin for a second straight weekend. The Prosecutor General’s Office said on Monday it agreed with the Federal Penitentiary Service that Navalny had repeatedly violated the conditions of a suspended 3 1/2 year sentence for fraud and should receive ...

Bloomberg Talks aimed at building support for a new Italian government pushed ahead with a deadline in sight, after consultations failed to produce a deal to end the deadlock that forced Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign. Roberto Fico, the lower-house speaker tasked with sounding out parties, said Sunday afternoon that discussions with the forces from the outgoing coalition would ...