Accessibility helpSkip to navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer
  • Sign In
  • Subscribe
Open side navigation menuOpen search bar
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In
  • Home
  • World
    Sections
    • World Home
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates
    • UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists say
    • Trump uses New Orleans attack to push security and border agenda
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
  • UK
    Sections
    • UK Home
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
    Most Read
    • Tories seek UK probe into rape gangs as Musk spat with Starmer escalates
    • UK heading for tax rises despite return to growth, economists say
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
    • Farage and why Badenoch does not have time to ‘watch this space’
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
  • Companies
    Sections
    • Companies Home
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit
    • Tesla’s annual deliveries drop for first time since 2011
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
    • Hedge funds Citadel and Millennium gain 15% in 2024
  • Tech
    Sections
    • Tech Home
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
    Most Read
    • Meta global affairs chief Clegg to be replaced by Republican Kaplan
    • Can France become a global AI powerhouse?
    • AI-generated phishing scams target corporate executives
    • US investors in China venture funds race to comply with new tech rules
    • Nvidia invested $1bn in AI deals in 2024
  • Markets
    Sections
    • Markets Home
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
    Most Read
    • Dollar surges against the euro and sterling
    • Ten things to tick off your financial to-do list in 2025
    • Hedge funds Citadel and Millennium gain 15% in 2024
    • Ex-crypto chief Do Kwon brought to New York to face fraud charges
    • Crypto industry dreams of a golden era under Trump
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    Sections
    • Opinion Home
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
    Most Read
    • Musk is standing in the way as Bezos reaches for orbit
    • Farage and why Badenoch does not have time to ‘watch this space’
    • Why it’s hard to be a friend of America
    • Things have to get worse to get better
    • Undersea sabotage response is a dangerous business
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    Sections
    • Work & Careers Home
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
    Most Read
    • Can France become a global AI powerhouse?
    • Secrets of an airline points millionaire
    • Pensions: the industry where women are in charge
  • Life & Arts
    Sections
    • Life & Arts Home
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
    Most Read
    • WNU, the fashionista’s favourite shirtmaker, now makes blazers, too 
    • One hundred million fans cannot make you famous
    • Secrets of an airline points millionaire
    • Social pressure holds back sales of alcohol-free drinks, research finds
    • Now this is a really nice rice pudding
  • HTSI
MenuSearch
  • Home
  • World
  • UK
  • Companies
  • Tech
  • Markets
  • Climate
  • Opinion
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
  • Life & Arts
  • HTSI
Financial Times
SubscribeSign In

US-China trade dispute

  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    How America First will transform the world in 2025

    In different ways, the US, Russia and China have all become revisionist powers that are seeking radical change to the status quo

    US President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China’s President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017.
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Semiconductors
    US launches probe into Chinese semiconductor industry

    Investigation comes just weeks before Biden administration hands over to president-elect Donald Trump

    An employee in protective clothing examines a semiconductor wafer in a clean room at a semiconductor manufacturing enterprise in Fuzhou, China.
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Trump’s tariff threat adds to fears over China growth

    Exports have buoyed economy but are expected to slow sharply if US imposes further levies in 2025

    An aerial view of vehicles on the dock waiting to be loaded onto ships for export at a port in Lianyungang in China’s eastern Jiangsu province
  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    Where the US-China trade war meets AI hype Premium content

    Semiconductor toolmaking is a great business, but the geopolitics are daunting

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Markets InsightAlicia García-Herrero
    China would balk at a sweeping Mar-a-Lago accord

    Given the need for a weak renminbi to support export growth, a reprise of the 1985 Plaza Accord with Japan is unlikely

    Donald Trump, left, with Chinese President Xi Jinping
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    EU trade
    EU presses for new powers to combat threat of Chinese import surge

    Brussels increasingly concerned it would struggle to fight back in a global trade war

    An employee works on a circuit board production line at the workshop of Anhui Shixin Electronic Technology
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Visual story
    How China is setting up shop in America’s backyard

    An increasingly close trade relationship is putting Mexico in the spotlight

    A composite image featuring two images showing Chinese and Mexican officials at groundbreaking ceremonies in Alianza Industrial Park, Coahuila, Mexico, alongside a map highlighting the location and other regions in Mexico
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Capital markets
    Chinese bond yields at widest gap with US in more than a decade

    Long rally in China’s debt comes amid domestic economic slowdown and hunt for haven assets

    An illustration showing the Rmb100 note
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Markets InsightStephen Roach
    China’s Trump cards in the coming trade war escalation

    US policymakers should think more about retaliatory responses to probable tariff increases

    A montage of a person in a cleanroom suit holding a semiconductor wafer with the Chinese national flag in the background along with an inset showing a bustling shipping port
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    US-China relations
    Trump has invited China’s President Xi Jinping to his inauguration

    Outreach comes as Beijing seeks clarity on how relations with Washington will fare under incoming administration

    Xi Jinping and Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Biden to hit Chinese cleantech imports with more tariffs

    Parting shot at geopolitical rival is effort to shelter US manufacturers from green-energy powerhouse

    Workers on a solar photovoltaic automatic intelligent equipment production line in Qinhuangdao, China
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Chris Miller
    How the chip war could turn under Trump

    From tariffs to AI demand, US companies are pondering what comes next

    Ann Kiernan illustration of Manhattan skyline strewn with AI chips and dots
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    Will China’s manufacturing juggernaut run out of road?

    Faced with weak demand at home and the threat of tariffs abroad, Beijing is under pressure to rethink its export-driven model

    Montage image of Xi Jinping, a worker in the manufacturing sector and a cargo ship of exports
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    China’s shift to local chips gains momentum from latest US export controls

    Industry associations urge companies to switch, saying American semiconductors are ‘no longer safe or reliable’

    Illustrated montage of a computer chip in the foreground and the US and Chinese flags in the background
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
    Tariff Man’s superpowers are weaker than he thinks

    Donald Trump’s obsession with import taxes belies their limited effects

    Justin Trudeau with Donald Trump in 2017. If Trump really does favour tariffs, he will find them a clumsy and often ineffective way of asserting US power
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Business InsightThomas Hale
    Western businesses in China hold on to hopes for Trump 2.0

    Some believe the incoming US president is in a strong position to negotiate a trade deal with Beijing

    Pedestrians in Beijing, China
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions

    Beijing bans export of materials used in semiconductors and batteries

    A close-up view of the Chinese flag positioned next to representations of the elements gallium and germanium on a periodic table
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    US hits China’s chip industry with new export controls

    Parting measures by Biden administration aim to slow Beijing’s development of artificial intelligence with military applications

    A man stands in front of a display booth for Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation at an expo in Shanghai.
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Trump is playing high-stakes poker on tariffs

    And the US consumer market is now the world’s richest chip

    Matt Kenyon illustration of gambling tokens around a pile of playing cards with Donald Trump adorning the King as  the top card
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Renewable energy
    US farmers protest against climate law loophole subverting green fuel crops

    American imports of used Chinese cooking oil as a biofuel feedstock have surged since passage of Inflation Reduction Act

    Soyabeans are harvested from a field on Hodgen Farm in Roachdale, Indiana, US
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Alan Beattie
    How to deal with Trump’s tariff threats

    Canada, Mexico and China have options to avoid a trade war

    Montage of Donald Trump and the flags of China, Canada and Mexico
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    US trade
    Trump says he will hit China, Canada and Mexico with new tariffs

    US president-elect vows to impose levies on first day in retaliation for illegal migration and drug trafficking

    Donald Trump is wearing a red "Make America Great Again" cap with "45-47" on the side during an event in Texas.
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Markets InsightBrian Albrecht
    How Trump should impose tariffs

    Policymakers need to update their approach if they are determined to use trade measures to protect industry

    The United States Steel Corporation Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania, US
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    China ‘willing’ to engage in Trump dialogue as it backs exporters

    Officials say Beijing will remain ‘steadfast’ in resisting protectionist measures

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    UK inflation creeps back

    October’s sharp acceleration cements expectation that Bank of England will delay rate cuts

Previous page You are on page 1 Next page

Useful links

Support

View Site TipsHelp CentreContact UsAbout UsAccessibilitymyFT TourCareersSuppliers

Legal & Privacy

Terms & ConditionsPrivacy PolicyCookie PolicyManage CookiesCopyrightSlavery Statement & Policies

Services

Share News Tips SecurelyIndividual SubscriptionsProfessional SubscriptionsRepublishingExecutive Job SearchAdvertise with the FTFollow the FT on XFT ChannelsFT Schools

Tools

PortfolioFT AppFT Digital EditionFT EditAlerts HubBusiness School RankingsSubscription ManagerNews feedNewslettersCurrency Converter

Community & Events

FT Live EventsFT ForumsBoard Director Programme

More from the FT Group

Markets data delayed by at least 15 minutes. © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2025. FT and ‘Financial Times’ are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
The Financial Times and its journalism are subject to a self-regulation regime under the FT Editorial Code of Practice.
Edition:UK
International
Subscribe for full access

Top sections

  • Home
  • World
    • Middle East war
    • Global Economy
    • UK
    • US
    • China
    • Africa
    • Asia Pacific
    • Emerging Markets
    • Europe
    • War in Ukraine
    • Americas
    • Middle East & North Africa
  • UK
    • UK Economy
    • UK Politics
    • UK Companies
    • Personal Finance
  • Companies
    • Energy
    • Financials
    • Health
    • Industrials
    • Media
    • Professional Services
    • Retail & Consumer
    • Tech Sector
    • Telecoms
    • Transport
  • Tech
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Semiconductors
    • Cyber Security
    • Social Media
  • Markets
    • Alphaville
    • Markets Data
    • Crypto
    • Capital Markets
    • Commodities
    • Currencies
    • Equities
    • Wealth Management
    • Moral Money
    • ETF Hub
    • Fund Management
    • Trading
  • Climate
  • Opinion
    • Columnists
    • The FT View
    • The Big Read
    • Lex
    • Obituaries
    • Letters
  • Lex
  • Work & Careers
    • Business School Rankings
    • Business Education
    • Europe's Start-Up Hubs
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Recruitment
    • Business Books
    • Business Travel
    • Working It
  • Life & Arts
    • Arts
    • Books
    • Food & Drink
    • FT Magazine
    • House & Home
    • Style
    • Travel
    • FT Globetrotter
  • Personal Finance
    • Property & Mortgages
    • Investments
    • Pensions
    • Tax
    • Banking & Savings
    • Advice & Comment
    • Next Act
  • HTSI
  • Special Reports

FT recommends

  • Alphaville
  • FT Edit
  • Lunch with the FT
  • FT Globetrotter
  • #techAsia
  • Moral Money
  • Visual and data journalism
  • Newsletters
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • News feed
  • FT Schools
  • FT Live Events
  • FT Forums
  • Board Director Programme
  • myFT
  • Portfolio
  • FT Digital Edition
  • Crossword
  • Our Apps
  • Help Centre
  • Subscribe
  • Sign In