'It's All About Trump's Tariffs': Asia Flocks to U.S. Trade Official

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : The meeting, which took place this week on South Korea's resort island of Jeju, was the first opportunity for the group of mostly Asian economies and the United States to meet collectively since President Trump announced -- and then suspended -- what he called reciprocal tariffs on dozens of trading partners.
62% : APEC was careful not to assign blame to any single country for the slowdown, citing "trade frictions" and "policy uncertainty.
47% : The group, which accounts for around half of global trade and about 60 percent of global economic output, cut its forecast for growth to 2.6 percent from its previous projection of 3.3 percent.

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