The United States had an autos and auto parts trade deficits of billion with Mexico and .6 billion with Canada, both major components of overall US goods trade deficits with its North American neighbors-deficits that Lighthizer said could no longer continue.
The US National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the upper Midwest, impacting parts of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin states.
The Ukrainian International Airlines flight was bound for Kiev. The downing of the airliner occurred about four hours after Iran had fired several rockets into Iraq, targeting US military sites in apparent retaliation for a US drone attack that killed Qassem Soleimani, a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.
The United States' efforts to protect its key domestic industries and political conflicts upon Taiwan deserve a closer look, as the US has labeled China as a nation pursuing economic aggression designed to weaken America, according to Yao.
The US recently launched a number of trade remedy investigations into Chinese goods, which has had negative implications for companies in both countries, particularly for US firms that are eager to either work with local partners or enlarge their presence in China, ministry spokesman Gao Feng said.
The US House Intelligence Committee voted on the same day in favor of releasing a memo by Republican Representative Devin Nunes that allegedly shows how the FBI abused its powers and demonstrated bias during its investigation into connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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The US should cherish the currently sound Sino-US trade relationship and economic cooperation, it said. Any unilateral practices of trade protectionism from the US are doomed to damage the bilateral economic and trade relations and corporate interests on both sides, according to a statement from the ministry.
The US's interference in separatist issues and its support for overseas separatist forces has nothing to do with ethnicity, religion, freedom or human rights, according to the report, which is entitled "Between inside and outside, the Double Standard of the US on Counter-Secessionism". It said the US's purpose is to take every opportunity to obstruct and undermine China's anti-secessionism struggle and contain China's peaceful development.
The US Labor Department will release June's hiring data next week. Employment increased in May, but still remains about 20 percent below pre-pandemic levels in February.
The United States remains skeptical, but will not openly block Seoul from reaching out to Pyongyang, as clearly shown by the decision to postpone the US-South Korean joint military drills during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.