Turning to the potential knock-on effect of a global trade war, von der Leyen said the EU “will not tolerate” Chinese goods ...

Stock markets of Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam deep in the red this year, despite rallying after reprieve on tariffs ...

Lynas, which is backed by Japanese investors keen to find an alternative to Chinese supplies, specialises in lighter metals ...

President Donald Trump’s tariffs have several consequences, many not yet clear. One that is already very evident, despite the ...

In today’s newsletter, we look at how the country’s smaller towns are becoming hot new markets for ecommerce companies. But first, Chinese electric-car manufacturer BYD does not get permission to ...

There is no reason why the rest of the world should not continue to have their economies reap the benefits of free trade, along the lines of existing free trade agreements such as Ceta (the EU-Canada ...

Investment advisers are still giving the conventional and usually correct advice as markets tumble: build your portfolio for the long term, dollar average, don’t sell in a downturn because you will ...

Kylian Mbappé has instructed lawyers to unleash a wave of legal action to recover €55mn the French football star claims he is ...

Mark Fitzgerald’s observations about disappearing FTs (Letters, April 5) are more apposite than he might realise. We live in a community adjacent to Richmond upon Thames bridge and have our beloved ...

China has built 600mn tonnes of annual excess steelmaking capacity. The Chinese steel industry is a geopolitical tool, which dumps that excess capacity on world markets at below cost prices. Unless ...

As we peer into the morass of Trumpian economics, Patrick Jenkins shines a useful light into that corner of the market where it all went wrong last time — namely the US mortgage market (“America’s ...

Customs duties collected by the US rose to $8bn in March, up one-third on the same month last year, as the first round of ...