Taxes Regulations: Trade War and Economy

taxes regulations: Foreign direct investment to the United States fell in 2018, and companies gathered at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss Alps this year say they are worried Trump's trade war with China will dampen the global economy and business investments even further. ; One key complaint here this week is that companies increasingly reliant on consumers in China have had to lower their earnings outlooks as the world's second-largest economy cools, according to The Japan Times. And while the U.S. administration has cut taxes and regulations to attract new investment, a wave of caution is rippling through many industries in the United States. It hasn't quite turned out that way. The trade war has been very damaging for the U.S. agricultural economy, said David Mac Lennan, chief executive of U.S. food and agricultural giant Cargill Inc, which announced worse-than-expected results out of China earlier in January. Foreign investment in the United States, which includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions and intra-company loans, fell about 18 percent in 2018 from the prior year, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD . That is close to the 19 percent year-on-year drop in foreign investment globally. The longer this goes on, the worse it is, he said. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.