President Donald Trump threatened to impose an additional 5% tariff on imports from Mexico if the country did not release water that his administration says must be allowed to flow under a treaty, escalating a fight with a major trading partner.

President Donald Trump signaled he could impose fresh tariffs on agricultural products, including Canadian fertilizer and Indian rice, the latest sign that protracted negotiations with two US trading partners could drag on.

Copper rose to an all-time high after China set domestic growth as its top economic priority for next year, and amid stockpiling of the metal in the US.

France is racing to forge a strategy to protect the country’s food industries against growing imports and to bolster exports, as it faces the prospect of the first agricultural trade deficit in almost half a century.

President Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick say the tariffs imposed on imports to the US aren’t a tax on American consumers. Never mind that any credible economist says the opposite.

China’s top leaders made strengthening domestic demand their top economic priority for 2026, while hinting at a measured approach to stimulus.