But romantics may be spared from becoming victims of a trade dispute. The White House declared victory on Sunday, saying that Colombia had reversed itself and agreed to allow the flights to land, backing down just hours after Trump threatened to impose visa restrictions in addition to the steep tariffs on its longtime ally in South America.
D: South Florida is a top destination for imports from Colombia, including the big business of flowers ahead of the holiday. But a lightning trade war between the two nations that erupted on Sunday appeared to have been averted overnight.
The US is Colombia's biggest export market, but it makes up only 0.5 percent of American imports, ranking as the 26th largest goods importer to the US.
The wrangling over the South American country's willingness to accept flights carrying deported immigrants is flaring up just three weeks before Valentine's Day, and Colombia is America’s No. 1 ...
With Valentine's Day coming up next month, we hear a trade battle between the United States and Colombia could have made flowers more expensive as leaders traded tariff threats over the weekend.
Today’s left lives for identity politics. Without the suffixes “-ism” or “-phobia,” Democrats would have to defend unpopular policies such as child genital mutilation and open borders. The
We’ll be regularly checking in with this group of people during President Trump’s first 100 days in office. Here’s what they thought of the beginning.
Colombia isn’t the first nation to have materially countered Trump’s deportation plans. Still, its tiff with the U.S. is indicative of some lesser-known trade entanglements between North and South America—and of the potential for the Trump administration to hurt Americans’ pocketbooks in its craven pursuit of mass deportations.
A food economist says the prospect of another trade war is weighing heavily on the agriculture and food sectors. David Ortega with Michigan State University says even the threat of tariffs from the U.
The diplomatic drama that began over the weekend provided clues on how Trump would deal with countries standing in the way of his immigration policies.
It took just hours for President Donald Trump to convince Colombian President Gustavo Petro to reverse course and take deportation flights from the U.S.