“Marathon conversations here between U.S. and China officials came to an end Saturday, with more talks scheduled for Sunday over the continuing trade war between the countries,“ the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The talks, which were led on the American side by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, spanned at least eight hours and concluded without an announced deal.”
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Trump’s tariffs threaten to become his Achilles’ heel
Republicans typically love President Trump — no matter what he does.
But a growing chorus of those supporters has quietly been expressing dissatisfaction with Trump’s handling of tariffs, including his most recent threat on foreign-made films.
They’re increasingly uncomfortable with the tariff talk and the market fluctuations, and they see through the spin coming from the administration in recent days.
Trump’s focus this week on implementing movie tariffs gave Republicans reason to feel even more consternation.
“It’s getting into silly territory,” one Republican strategist told The Hill. “This is going to continue to cause heartache with Americans who voted for him and not with the Democrats because they were worried about cost of living.”
A former Trump aide who worked on his 2020 campaign said the tariffs discussion is “not sitting well” with many of the voters who supported him.
“They didn’t vote for him to rock the markets and throw out flimsy arguments on movies,” the former aide said. “They voted for him because they wanted a remake of the first [term] Trump economy.” …
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Poll shows big problem for Trump’s trade deal: It’s Trump
There’s a fundamental challenge facing the nascent trade deal the United States and United Kingdom just unveiled: Neither country trusts the man behind it.
A wide majority of American and British adults support their governments reaching a deal, according to a POLITICO-Public First poll conducted last month, but less than one-third of respondents in the U.K. and 44 percent of Americans said they believed President Donald Trump would abide by it. Nearly half of Americans, including 25 percent of his own voters, said Trump’s unpredictability is the biggest barrier to negotiations.
The poll offers a sobering assessment of how Trump’s whiplash-inducing approach to tariffs has eroded the United States’ credibility in other countries — a warning for the White House that its combative approach is pushing longtime allies toward its biggest economic rival: China.
After all, the U.K. deal is among the easiest to broker of the dozens the Trump administration is scurrying to complete by July 8. The administration announced Thursday an agreement that will lower tariffs on British-made cars, plane parts, and steel and aluminum and open up the British market for American agricultural products, ethanol and machinery. But the agreement also dodged some of the thorniest trade issues between the two countries. And it was reached with a partner, the U.K., that has been working on striking a trade deal with the U.S. since the first Trump administration….
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But even as Trump takes a victory lap, the poll found serious warning signs about how Trump’s approach to tariffs is damaging the U.S. image both at home and abroad….
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