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Canada's Aluminum Valley grapples with U.S. tariffs

by Emma Jacobs
Sep 17, 2018
A 50-mile stretch along the Saguenay River in Quebec produces roughly half of Canada's aluminum; residents are anxious.
Rio Tinto ships raw material and finished ingots in and out of its own port facility on the bay of the Saguenay River, which flows out to the Saint Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean.
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The next round of tariffs will hit the U.S. fashion industry

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 17, 2018
"There aren't a lot of places that can replace China," says Julia Hughes, president of the U.S. Fashion Industry Association.
A patternmaker works on a garment in New York City in 2014.
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Tariff jitters grow at Washington state port

by Molly Solomon
Sep 12, 2018
The port of Vancouver handles the West Coast's second-largest volume of imported steel, now subject to a 25 percent duty.
ILWU Local 4 President Cager Clabaugh says the tariffs are already hurting work at the port. An order for 6,000 tons of copper ore on route to China was recently canceled. The mountains of copper now sit unused in a warehouse at the Port of Vancouver.
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Steel workers press steelmakers on wages and health care costs, with a strike authorization vote

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 11, 2018
The vote comes as U.S. Steel and ArcelorMittal are in union contract negotiations.
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Trade war forces automakers Ford and Volvo to cancel big plans

by Scott Tong
Sep 10, 2018
President Donald Trump’s tariffs — and talk of more — are driving global automakers to make some big decisions. Volvo, which has a Chinese parent company and makes a couple vehicles on the mainland there, canceled a planned initial public offering of its stock, citing the dark cloud of tariffs. Ford, which makes a version of […]
This photo taken on May 22, 2018 shows an imported Ford Mustang displayed at a showroom in Nantong in China's eastern Jiangsu province
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China looms over EU-U.S. trade talks

by Scott Tong
Sep 10, 2018
On Monday, America’s top trade official is in Brussels, talking tariffs with the European Union. A couple months ago the two sides agreed to a trade war truce. But with the Trump administration constantly reviewing trade policy, it’s hard to predict how things will go. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 
Flags of the European Union member states in Brussels, Belgium. 
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Here’s how deficit-inducing tax cuts lead to trade deficits

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Sep 5, 2018
The U.S. trade deficit in July surged to a five-month high, $50.1 billion, as exports of products like soybeans and civilian aircraft fell, while imports reached record levels. President Donald Trump regularly complains about trade deficits, but his own spending policies tend to undermine the goal of lowering the trade gap. One part of the […]
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Japan trade officials and companies take a nuanced approach to U.S. tariffs

by Adrian Ma
Sep 4, 2018
The Trump administration’s 25 percent tariff on imported steel has triggered retaliation from U.S. trading partners such as Canada, the European Union, and China. But over the past few months, Japan, which has also been a target of U.S. tariffs, and which runs a $69 billion trade surplus with the U.S. (the third-largest trade imbalance […]
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Is the Fed causing turmoil in emerging markets?

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Aug 31, 2018
How U.S. interest rates cause trouble in Turkey, Argentina, and beyond
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Why Trump's tariffs on newsprint were overturned

by Andy Uhler
Aug 30, 2018
The U.S. International Trade Commission finds itself in more of the spotlight now that the White House is taking a bigger role in tariffs.
Jason Campbell adjusts rolls of newsprint before printing at The Columbian newspaper on April 18, 2018 in Vancouver, Washington. In January of 2017 the the U.S. Commerce Department imposed tariffs as much as 32 percent on Canadian newsprint causing paper prices to wildly skyrocket. The new prices may harm newspapers, already operating on razor thin margins, across the United States.
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