The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in the UK has consular-style privileges, including staff immunity and inviolable premises, which were granted when these benefits were never imagined to be used for China’s transnational repression operations.

India received offers for phosphate fertilizer at more than $900 a ton in a tender on Thursday, a fresh sign of how the war in the Middle East is boosting costs for major importers.

For a brief moment in 2017, Anthony Scaramucci became a unit of time — his roughly 11-day stint as White House communications director was so fleeting that it entered the political lexicon. Nearly a decade on, he has proved more durable than the joke. The Trump loyalist-turned-critic, Wall Street financier and podcast host remains a fixture in American political culture. He is still parsing the president he once backed and the bets — on figures like Sam Bankman-Fried and on crypto — that have shaped his career.

US President Donald Trump and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, expressed confidence that the two nations would be able to resolve their trade issues in the coming weeks after a meeting at the White House that both leaders cast as productive.

Importers should be transparent with investors about how they’re treating tariff refunds in financial reports as businesses seek paybacks from the Trump administration, an SEC official said Thursday.

When Donald Trump’s plane touches down in Beijing, he’ll become the first sitting US president to visit China in nearly a decade. His two-day summit with Xi Jinping extends a personal relationship that’s weathered a tariff war, pandemic and historic energy crisis.