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Reshoring gets new attention during COVID-19

by Sabri Ben-Achour
May 19, 2020
As the coronavirus has exposed weaknesses in supply chains, efforts are renewed to bring manufacturing back to the United States.
President Donald Trump gives a speech in 2017. There's a renewed effort to bring American companies' production back to the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Trade showdown

Trump administration plans additional tariffs on steel and aluminum

by Kimberly Adams
Jan 27, 2020
Tariffs from 2018 made raw metals from outside the country more expensive. Now finished products could get extra taxes, too.
A worker cutting steel at a factory in Huaibei in China's eastern Anhui province in May 2018.
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Pedaling around the trade war

by Bennett Purser
Jan 27, 2020
Securing tariff exemption changed day-to-day business at State Bicycle Co.
Mehdi Farsi, co-founder of State Bicycle Co. in Tempe, Arizona.
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The world can't agree on how to tax big tech companies

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jan 17, 2020
Will the U.S. get into trade fight after trade fight with every country that tries to tax big tech?
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What the phase one deal means for one Iowa farmer

by Andie Corban and Kai Ryssdal
Jan 15, 2020
Corn and soybean farmer April Hemmes isn't sure she'll be able to regain the Chinese buyers she lost during the trade war.
An Iowa corn farm in 2015.
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Despite deals completed and in the works, many trade conflicts remain

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jan 15, 2020
There are plenty of other fights brewing, especially between the U.S. and Europe.
There could be still be stormy skies ahead for U.S. trade.
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Theft of farming secrets is backdrop for U.S.-China trade deal

by Scott Tong
Jan 15, 2020
The U.S. accuses Chinese actors of systematically stealing American ideas, including agricultural technology.
Micro greens grow at a vertical farm in Newark, New Jersey.
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For Dallas Fed president, the phase one deal is "stabilization"

by Kai Ryssdal and Sean McHenry
Jan 14, 2020
Robert Kaplan weighs in on how trade has shaped the central bank and where the economy is headed next.
"I think the trade dispute with China is going to go on for years," says Robert Kaplan, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
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Ahead of a U.S.-China trade deal, uncertainty still dominates the steel business

by Kai Ryssdal and Bennett Purser
Jan 14, 2020
We look back at the chaos tariffs have inflicted on RM Metals in New Jersey.
Steel coils produced at the NLMK Indiana mill are prepared for shipping in Portage, Indiana, in 2018.
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Here's what American businesses want you to know about the trade war

by Bridget Bodnar , Andie Corban and Bennett Purser
Jan 14, 2020
Business leaders are united on one thing: the trade war has changed how they run their companies.
From fish hooks to reels, many pieces of imported fishing equipment are subject to tariffs.
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