Trade

Today is day four of the tariff battle — some call it war — between the U.S. and China. Whether it’ll cause major economic damage depends who you ask. We step back to assess the Chinese economy in this fragile moment and how its transition from a middle-income country to a rich one is going. Click the audio […]

When we go to war in the conventional sense, there’s usually supposed to be an exit strategy. What about with trade wars? How do we get out of this one? Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

Trade fight. Trade skirmish. Possible trade war. We’ve been hedging our language around what the Trump administration’s multiple rounds of tariffs actually mean. But come midnight tonight, when $34 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods are supposed to kick in, all that talk of trade war starts to look a lot more real and a […]

Mexico has elected a new president. Andrés Manuel López Obrador … often referred to by his initials …. AMLO…won easily in yesterday’s ballot, getting more than half the vote. And for the first time since 1997, Mexico’s presidential party will also control both Houses in Congress. López Obrador is a long-time leftist, a populist, who […]

President Donald Trump is telling White House officials he wants to pull the U.S. out of the World Trade Organization, according to news website Axios. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin later dismissed those reports as an “exaggeration.” Axios reported, citing an unnamed official, that the president had complained the WTO was designed by the rest of […]

If the threatened 25 percent tariffs on cars produced in the European Union coming into the United States are imposed, more and more people may head to the used car lot.  Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 

With trade tensions seemingly escalating, companies are now reacting. Some are starting to move production overseas, adjust their supply chains and raise prices. Once these shifts happen, how hard is it for companies to shift back? Click the above audio player to hear the full story.