commodity prices and consumer spending exports jumped to by eleven percent china s trade surplus narrowed that being closely watched by the u.s. as the two nations tussle over trade the trumpet ministration recently increased duties on chinese washing machines and solar modules beijing retaliated starting an anti dumping investigation of u.s. open exports. no deal may be better than a bad one that s the warning shot canadian prime minister justin trudeau has fired at the united states over nafta the north american free trade agreement he says he won t accept anything that doesn t benefit the canadians that s the same tack us president donald trump is taking the comments setting up the two leaders for a showdown. it s been one and a half weeks since the latest round of nafta talks between canada the united states and mexico concluded with the go sheet are saying they re moving forward but with a very slow progress. during