Washington Times - Business

• Trump exempts computers, phones, other electronics from tariffs

  13-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 23

  Computers, smartphones, chips and other devices and components, including many from China, will be exempted from President Trump's reciprocal tariffs.

• Four arrested in D.C. for using fire extinguisher as distraction while trying to rob Chanel store

  13-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 95

  Four men were arrested at a Chanel store in the District of Columbia on Friday after they used a fire extinguisher as a diversion in an attempted...

• UK lawmakers approve rescue of British Steel in emergency parliamentary session

  13-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 78

  U.K. lawmakers returned to Parliament from their Easter break on Saturday to approve an emergency rescue of the country's last remaining factory...

• Apple has few incentives to start making iPhones in U.S., despite Trump's trade war with China

  13-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 54

  President Donald Trump's administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in...

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• Rampant 'shrimp fraud' deals another blow to devastated U.S. shrimpers but tariffs offer new hope

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 519

  Restaurants, stores and even shrimp festivals are importing cheaper foreign shrimp but telling customers they're eating shrimp caught by U.S....

• What we know about the helicopter company in deadly New York City crash

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 435

  New York Helicopter has plied the skies around New York City landmarks for decades. But the company had some difficulties before one of its...

• Trump reaches deals with 5 law firms, allowing them to avoid prospect of punishing executive orders

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 93

  President Donald Trump announced deals Friday with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of punishing executive orders and...

• Freak sell-off of 'safe haven' U.S. bonds has Wall Street rattled

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 82

  The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that...

• Trump open to trade talks with China, but first move is unclear

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 52

  President Trump wants to strike a trade deal with China to stop tit-for-tat tariffs, the White House said Friday, though it offered no sign the...

• Major nations agree on first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases with plan that targets shipping

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 120

  Many of the world's largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships...

• Could Trump's tariffs slow emissions? Sure, experts say, but at great cost overall

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 61

  President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs have stirred widespread anxiety about a severe economic downturn -- and curiosity, for some, about...

• Irish privacy watchdog investigates Elon Musk's X's use of personal data to train Grok AI chatbot

  12-4-2025 Business Washington Times - Business 122

  Ireland's data privacy watchdog said Friday it's investigating Elon Musk's social media platform X over its use of personal data to train his...