New U.S. tariffs on Brazil took effect Wednesday August 6, with duties previously set at 10 percent surging to 50 percent.

China’s signature project, the Belt and Road Initiative, reached a new milestone. During the first six months of 2025, BRI activity hit a record high with construction contracts and ...

Agricultural goods from Canada are largely exempt from tariffs as most produce is covered by the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement. But in Canada’s Ontario province, vegetable growers are ...

Mexico and Canada ended two days of high-level diplomatic and trade talks on Wednesday, August 6, in Mexico City. Both sides say the meetings were an effort to shore-up bilateral ...

Wildfires across North America are creating hazardous conditions from the Pacific to the Atlantic. CGTN’s Jim Spellman reports.

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been placed under house arrest — reigniting the country’s deep political ...

U.S. President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order that imposed further tariffs on Canadian goods. While talks ...

The latest inflation data suggests tariffs are contributing to the cost of living rising again in the U.S., but some lawmakers appear to have profited handsomely from the impact of duties on ...

On August 6th 1945, the United States dropped the first ever nuclear weapon used in war on the Japanese city, Hiroshima. It ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff regime may have left a lot of losers, from small, poor countries like Laos and Algeria to wealthy U.S. trading partners like Canada and Switzerland.

Global stock markets fell sharply on Friday as new U.S. tariffs on major trading partners came into force. President Donald ...

Trade tensions remain high between Canada and the United States. Since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January, a ...