tariffs

What’s at stake for the U.S. economy?

Gretchen Blough is reminded of her family’s struggles working in American steel.

After brinkmanship and blunders, there’s cautious optimism in China that the leaders can defuse trade tensions.

Trans-shipping is a way to circumvent new tariffs on foreign goods.

“This is a really exciting time for the garlic capital of the world,” says Ken Christopher of Christopher Ranch in Gilroy, California.

As the list of proposed tariffs grows, so do the number of people wishing to testify, says Lisa Trofe, one of 300 witnesses at public hearings this week.

And how its customers are thinking about supply chains.

India hit the U.S. with some retaliatory tariffs of its own, a response to U.S. steel and aluminium penalties levied on many countries.

Sales rose, and many of the gains were in discretionary categories.

The economy feels it when we don’t know what’s going to happen with tariffs and trade negotiations.