Amid tensions, Chinese manufacturers at the Canton Fair say they are squeezed on many fronts.

Payments, once justified as a way to retain leaders during the crisis, are now tied to performance metrics.

Manufacturers will be clamoring for domestic steel to avoid paying the tariff, so sellers have the upper hand now, explained Emily Blanchard, a business professor at Dartmouth University.

"In China's history, we’ve faced more serious problems than this,” one man says.

Airline companies want restrictions for animals on planes, to prevent passenger injuries from untrained pets.

The tariffs will hit a total of $3 billion worth of U.S. goods.

Multibillion-dollar retailers are enormous machines, with a complex network of suppliers and tens of thousands of workers around the country. Chapter 11 puts them in limbo.