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Business & FinanceTrump’s midterm rebuke gives trading partners room to resist his tariffs and slow-walk investment pledges
The Democratic sweep in the US midterms could embolden countries around the world to resist Donald Trump’s combative trade policies, analysts say, handing China an upper hand in talks and giving allies reason to slow down the investment pledges they made to stave off tariffs.
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IndiaIndia to hold Monday talks with liquor firms as domestic giants join bulk Scotch tariff dispute
India's commerce ministry will meet foreign and domestic liquor executives on Monday after Indian manufacturers joined Diageo and Pernod Ricard in protesting the exclusion of bulk Scotch imports from the UK trade pact's tariff cut.