By Terri Wu | July 08, 2025Updated:July 08, 2025 At this year’s G7 summit, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held up a symbol of the West’s bid to gain supply chain independence from China: a rare earth magnet. “It was manufactured in Estonia, by a Canadian company using raw materials sourced from Australia
People shop at a grocery store in New York City on March 12, 2025. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers found that prices for imported goods have dropped in the first five months of the year, even though overall goods prices have risen in the same
An employee looks on at steel rolls at a factory in Nantong, in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province, on March 1, 2022. STR/AFP via Getty Images Vietnam has imposed anti-dumping duties on certain hot-rolled coil steel products from China, dealing a blow to Beijing’s ongoing efforts to use neighboring countries as transshipment points to disguise the
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick waves as he arrives at Lancaster House, on the second day scheduled for trade talks between the United States and China, in London on June 10, 2025. Toby Melville/Reuters The Trump administration’s top trade negotiators are set to meet with Chinese officials in early August, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
A TSA agent waits for passengers to use the TSA PreCheck lane being implemented by the Transportation Security Administration at Miami International Airport on Oct. 4, 2011, in Miami, Fla.. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ending its decades-long policy of having passengers take off their shoes at airport security checkpoints, Homeland
President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a dinner in the Blue Room of the White House on July 7, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 8 for a second consecutive day. Trump said the meeting would
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 8, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds /AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration will not offer “amnesty” for farm laborers, according to President Donald Trump. In a July 8 Cabinet meeting, Trump was asked to comment on remarks made