Depending on the size, weight, and type of vessel, ship owners often pay anywhere between $15,000 and $300,000 in basic fees ...

Accordingly, grabbing the Panama Canal would no longer be righting Carter’s wrong, itself degrading the value of any U.S. treaty, but would be an act of naked imperialism.

Washington gave control of the waterway to Panama on December 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by then-President Jimmy Carter. Trump has claimed that Carter “foolishly” gave the canal away.

Washington relinquished control of the waterway to Panama on December 31, 1999, under a treaty signed in 1977 by President Jimmy Carter. Trump has said that Carter "foolishly" gave the canal away.

In 1977, Jimmy Carter finally conceded the canal to Panama. When Panama took over, it established an independent government authority to run the canal for profit and to modernize it.

Since returning to office, President Trump has made repeated claims that China operates the Panama Canal and threatened to take it back from the Panama Canal Authority, which has controlled it ...

The US built the canal in the early 20th Century but, after years of protest, President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty with Panama in 1977 to gradually hand back control of the waterway, which Trump ...

The U.S. operated the canal until 1977 when President Jimmy Carter negotiated and signed two treaties with Panama, known jointly as the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, which established joint control of ...

Trump has long complained about the “bad deal” Jimmy Carter made when he returned the canal to Panama in 1977. But he’s been ratcheting up the rhetoric and falsehoods from the very start of ...

Trump has accused Panama of charging U.S. ships exorbitant rates to transit the canal, which he said was “foolishly” given away by President Jimmy Carter as part of the Torrijos-Carter ...

The Panama Canal Authority is run as a business independent from the government of Panama and not controlled by China. President Jimmy Carter claimed negotiating two Panama Canal Treaties in 1977 and ...