Global Trade & Economics

Trump’s Tariffs Will Harm Growth in 2019, IMF Predicts

October 10, 2018

The International Monetary Fund has cut its U.S. growth forecast for next year, warning that Trump’s trade policies will harm growth domestically and around the world.

Trump's New Chinese Tariffs Are Hitting Dollar Tree Stores

October 9, 2018

Fortune

President Donald Trump’s new 10-percent tariff on Chinese imports is impacting low- and middle-income customers somewhere you might not expect.

White House Announces Strategic Plans to Push U.S. Advanced Manufacturing

October 9, 2018

IndustryWeek

The plan calls for new technology development, workforce training and expansion of the domestic manufacturing supply chain.

The Most Valuable Commodity in Cyberwar: Real Information

October 9, 2018

Bloomberg

Last week, we got a reminder that foreign governments and partisan operatives spend a lot of time trying to vacuum up very real information.

China Put Spy Microchips in Servers Used by Amazon and Apple, Report Says

October 8, 2018

Los Angeles Times

China secretly inserted surveillance microchips into servers used by major technology companies, including Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., in an audacious military operation likely to further inflame trade tensions with the United States.

Will Nissan Stay Once Britain Leaves? How One Factory Explains the Brexit Dilemma

October 5, 2018

The Guardian

In the 1980s, Thatcher’s government sold Britain as “a gateway to Europe.” Nissan came to Sunderland and thrived — but now its future is uncertain.

White House Report Points to Severe Shortcomings in Military Supply Chain

October 5, 2018

The Washington Post

Uncertain budgets, a broken procurement system and an unfair trade environment have eroded the United States’ defense industrial base to levels at which national security could be at risk.

Nafta by Any Other Name Is Just Fine With Corporate America

October 4, 2018

Bloomberg

The sky isn’t falling. That’s the message coming from Corporate America after President Trump reached a deal to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement.

U.K. Businesses Count Cost of Brexit Before It's Happened

October 3, 2018

Bloomberg

The costs of Brexit are already mounting before the U.K. has even left the European Union, the country’s biggest business lobby group said.

Here’s What’s in the New Nafta

There’s a lot to digest in the new trade agreement that the United States, Mexico and Canada finalized in deadline-beating fashion on Sunday, starting with a name change.

October 2, 2018

The New York Times

There’s a lot to digest in the new trade agreement that the United States, Mexico and Canada, starting with a name change.