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The U.K.has a new five-week deadline to finalize its trade agreement with the U.S. after President Donald Trump spared the country’s steel and aluminum exports from a doubling of tariffs.

President Donald Trump said in a late-night social media post that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was very tough to make a deal with, raising questions about whether a fragile economic truce will hold.

Europe and the United States are meeting in Paris to negotiate a settlement of a tense tariff spat with global economic ramifications between two global economic powerhouses.

President Donald Trump signed a directive June 3 formally raising steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% from 25% starting June 4.

Dollar General set a quarterly sales record of $10.44 billion and upgraded its annual profit and sales outlook as Americans tighten their budgets and spend more at bargain stores.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has sent letters to trading partners to remind them of an upcoming deadline in tariff negotiations, according to the White House.

U.S. economic growth will slow to 1.6% this year as President Donald Trump’s erratic trade wars disrupt global commerce, drive up costs and leave businesses and consumers frozen by uncertainty.

U.S. factory activity contracted in May for a third consecutive month and a gauge of imports fell to a 16-year low as firms pulled back in the face of higher tariffs.

Canada’s provincial leaders urged Prime Minister Mark Carney to back new oil pipelines, electricity grids, critical mineral mines, ports and railways at a meeting June 2 meant to identify “nation-building” projects to be fast-tracked.

A group of small businesses that won a ruling that most of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs are illegal want them blocked during the administration’s appeal.