Randy Carr, whose family business makes embroidered patches, is always on high alert for the competition. But with on-again-off-again tariffs, he’s just trying to keep up with the rules.
Category: Factories and Manufacturing
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A Decade-Long Search for a Battery That Can End the Gasoline Era
Can a small Massachusetts start-up perfect a battery that would make electric vehicles cheaper and more convenient than conventional cars?
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Trade War Shock Is Scrambling China’s Exports
Shipments of goods out of China slumped in April, including a big decline in exports to the United States, as President Trump imposed sky-high tariffs.
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Why China Is Investing So Much Money in Moroccan Factories
Morocco is linked to Europe on the strength of its auto sector and a trade pact. But its status as a connector country has become precarious in the trade war.
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Barbie Maker Mattel Plans to Raise Prices Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Mattel, the U.S. toy company, said it would increase prices of some U.S. toys, citing levies on Chinese imports.
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Barbie Maker Mattel Plans to Raise Prices Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Mattel, the U.S. toy company, said it would increase prices of some U.S. toys, citing levies on Chinese imports.
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Tariffs Could Wreck What Bangladesh’s Garment Workers Have Gained
In Bangladesh, the factories that make clothing for export had remade themselves and raised national incomes along the way. They never bargained for a trade war.
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Trump’s Tariffs Create Fear and Uncertainty at Vietnam’s Factories
The threat of 46 percent levies, among the highest for any country, is rattling Vietnam’s factory managers and workers, as well as thousands of exporters.
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Car Prices Expected to Rise as Tariffs on Parts Kick In
Tariffs on imported parts will have a broad impact because all vehicles use components made abroad.
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How a U.S. Tax Loophole Supercharged China’s Exports
E-commerce trade in small parcels brought Chinese factories to American shoppers. Tariffs are severing the connection.
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Vietnam Used to Be a Safe Haven for Trade. Now It Might Not Be.
On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. companies that have come to rely on Vietnam’s factories, like Apple and Nike, are in a bind because of Trump’s tariffs.