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WATCH: Trump discusses the firing of John Bolton and regulating e-cigarettes

By Associated Press

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said Bolton wasn't getting along with other members of his administration, and announced that his administration is proposing banning thousands of flavors of e-cigarettes.

China says trade talks with U.S. to take place in October

By Joe McDonald, Associated Press

The U.S. and China have raised tariffs on billions of dollars of each other's imports, disrupting trade in goods from soybeans to medical equipment and battering traders on both sides.

'It's the way I negotiate.' Trump brushes off concerns about China trade

By Zeke Miller, Darlene Superville, Associated Press

President Donald Trump on Monday defended the way he is trying to squeeze a trade deal out of China, saying it's what worked for him in business.

Trump claims serious trade negotiations to begin with China

By Zeke Miller, Darlene Superville, Associated Press

Trump said his trade negotiators had received two "very good calls" from China Sunday. A spokesman for China's foreign ministry said he didn't know what Trump was talking about.

China tariffs fuel Trump 'order' for firms to cut China ties

By Zeke Miller, Associated Press

President Donald Trump is threatening to use the emergency authority granted by a powerful, but obscure federal law to make good on his tweeted "order" to U.S. businesses to cut ties in China amid a spiraling trade war between the…

Trump hikes tariffs on Chinese goods by 5 percentage points

By Paul Wiseman, Jill Colvin, Joe McDonald, Associated Press

Trump said Friday he is raising previously announced tariffs to 15 percent and 30 percent.

China announces tariff hike on $75 billion of U.S. products

By Joe McDonald, Paul Wiseman, Jill Colvin, Associated Press

The tariffs of 10 percent and 5 percent take effect on two batches of goods Sept. 1 and Dec. 15.

U.S. delays tariffs on some Chinese goods, drops others

By Paul Wiseman, Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

The United States is delaying tariffs on Chinese-made cellphones, laptop computers and other items and removing other Chinese imports from its target list altogether.

Stocks plunge on Wall Street over escalating trade war

By Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise, Associated Press

The escalations in the trade war between the world's largest economies are rattling investors already unnerved about a slowing global economy, falling U.S. corporate profits and possibly too-weak inflation.