The US economy is booming while much of the rest of the world struggles with slow or no growth. The US dollar, the world's reserve currency, is strong. That makes foreign-made goods attractive to US buyers because they're cheap, but it makes American goods more expensive for overseas buyers who must pay in local currencies weaker than the dollar.
The US exported 97 million short tons (MMst) of coal in 2017, a 61 percent increase over the 2016 level, as exports to Asia more than doubled from 15.7 MMst in 2016 to 32.8 MMst in 2017, including about 3.2 MMst to China, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
The US has released a proposed list of China's imports worth 0 billion on which it would look to impose tariffs. Including the potential retaliatory tariffs by trade partners, the total value of affected goods could rise to 1 billion, or 2.5 percent of global trade and 0.5 percent of global GDP, if these measures are implemented, according to a recent research from Morgan Stanley.
The UK side, which adheres to multilateralism, looks forward to a greater role from China in the international economic system and is willing to step up bilateral cooperation on international and regional affairs, he added.
The US military has stepped up air raids against al-Shabab, which is trying to overthrow the internationally-backed Somali government.
The United States surpassed Italy in the total number of deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, becoming the country with the most confirmed cases and deaths.
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The United States has stepped up its assistance to Afghan security forces and increased its air strikes against the Taliban and other militant groups, aiming to break a stalemate and force the insurgents to the negotiating table.
The United States alone has the world’s biggest tablet share at 59 percent, with the Kindle Fire and Fire HD tablets taking more than half of that. Barnes and Noble’s?Nook has 10 percent share, while Google’s Nexus 7 has just seven percent.
The UN Human Rights Council reviews its members' human rights every four to five years in a process that is officially called the Universal Periodic Reviews. The review was chaired by Coly Seck, permanent representative of Senegal to the UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland, and also president of the UN Human Rights Council.
The United States has seen a prosperous year in 2017, when its crude oil, gasoline, diesel, propane and even liquefied natural gas (LNG) were shipped abroad at a record pace. Its exports are poised to expand further, giving OPEC a headache as the group restrains its own output.