US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin will hold a summit in Finland on July 16th. This will be the first time that Trump and Putin will be meeting at a summit. Both world leaders had rubbed shoulders on the sidelines of major gatherings in the past.
President Trump will announce on Tuesday the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. This is according to European diplomats who claim that after meeting the US president they were unable to convince him to not do this.
President Donald Trump could plunge the U.S. into a trade fight with Europe. The president is racing against a self-imposed deadline to decide whether to permanently exempt the European Union and other six US allies from the tariffs or not.
A new trade deal has been signed in Santiago, Chile to counter the growing threat of trade protectionism by the US. The deal challenges President Trump’s view of international trade as a zero-sum game.
President Trump is proposing to implement global tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which lawmakers fear could be counterproductive on the US economy.
