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Distiller Sam Garbutt checks distillery controls in the Dewer’s Distillery in Aberfeldy, the Scottish Highlands, in 2018, where they have produced Scotch whisky since 1898, and offer traditional whisky tastings, and a whisky and chocolate tasting tour. Many people now like to know more about their food and drink and where it comes from, leading to a boom in so-called &quot;spirit tourism’’ in Britain, with artisan brands and micro distilleries popping up across the country. (East London Liquor Company via AP)

Scottish whisky prices could be headed down as U.S., U.K. talk trade deal

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump holds a trade agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trump spent four years upending seven decades of American trade policy. He started a trade war with China, slammed America’s closest allies by taxing their steel and aluminum and terrified Big Business by threatening to take a wrecking ball to $1.4 trillion in annual trade with Mexico and Canada. Trump’s legacy on trade is likely to linger, regardless whether Joe Biden replaces him in the White House in January 2021.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

From Beijing to Brussels, Trump’s trade wars at a glance

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer takes off his mask as he arrives at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on U.S. trade on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

US seeks lower tariffs overseas, fewer duty-free imports

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks during an event to sign an update to the North American Free Trade Agreement, at the national palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Dec. 10. 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) ** FILE **

Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer: U.S. ready to enforce, implement trade deals amid pandemic

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks during an event to sign an update to the North American Free Trade Agreement, at the national palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Dec. 10. 2019. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico opposed to ‘surprise’ labor inspectors in USMCA

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., makes a statement at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Pelosi announced that the House is moving forward to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats, White House forge new North American trade deal

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer testifies before the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, during a hearing hearing on 'The President's 2019 Trade Policy Agenda and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement'. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Top US trade official plans to meet Chinese counterpart

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, March 30, 2019, file photo, workers assemble LED lights at a factory in Yushan county in central China's Jiangxi province. China is cutting taxes on its fledgling software and integrated circuit industries to spur development in the face of U.S. export controls that threaten to handicap Chinese tech companies. (AP Photo, File)

US, China appear to brace for long haul in trade dispute

By PAUL WISEMAN and JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin gets up after testifying about the budget during a Financial Services and General Government subcommittee hearing, Wednesday May 15, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Mnuchin optimistic on trade battles; Wall Street approves

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 14, 2017, file photo, United States Trade Representative-nominee Robert Lighthizer, foreground, looks at documents during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lighthizer, the top U.S. trade negotiator, suggests that the U.S. and China are nearing an agreement that would end their trade conflict, but wouldn't commit to a specific time frame. &quot;Our hope is that we are in the final weeks of having an agreement,&quot; U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer told the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

WH official: US, China in ‘final weeks’ of trade talks

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, left, and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, right, attend a meeting of senior U.S. and Chinese officials to resume trade negotiations, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House complex, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

US official: Much work remains to reach US-China trade deal

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, right, accompanied by Trump Administration officials, meets with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, left, and other Chinese officials as they begin US-China Trade Talks in the Diplomatic Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Complex, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump plans to meet Xi after US-China talks end with no deal

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

Top US trade official voices concern over Peru logging

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Chinese President Xi Jinping waves before he departs Manila's International Airport in Philippines during rain Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. Xi ended his two-day visit in the Philippines, his first visit to the U.S. treaty ally, with offers of infrastructure loans and new accords to prevent clashes and possibly explore for oil and gas in the disputed South China Sea. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

U.S. says China hacking increasing ahead of Trump-Xi meeting

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

The Latest: US, Canada work into night on trade deal

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Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to the media as she arrives for trade talks at the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: US-Canada trade talks to resume Friday morning

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European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmstroem, center, Japanese Minister for Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko, right, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, pose for photographers prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Saturday, March 10, 2018. The EU is still seeking clarity from Washington about whether the 28-nation bloc will be exempt from U.S. President Donald Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: No steel tariff exemption for EU granted yet

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., left, listens as Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence about his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the investigation into contacts between Trump campaign associates and Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 13, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Cornyn, Cuellar ask U.S. trade rep for briefing on NAFTA, U.S.-Mexico border region

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer arrives for a meeting with German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Brigitte Zypries in Washington on May 24, 2017. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade rep: Ford’s China move ‘very troubling’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer gave his first public testimony on President Trump's promised radical shift in U.S. trade policy in a packed Senate Finance Committee hearing Wednesday. (Associated Press/File)

Robert Lighthizer, Trump’s trade chief, promises tougher enforcement, no ‘deadline’ for NAFTA deal

By Nicole Ault - The Washington Times