Brazil's Farmers Dump Sugar for Soy As Trade War Boosts Chinese Demand
Last year, Brazilian farmer Gustavo Lopes sized up his sugarcane plantation against his soybean fields.
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Record Number of People Charged for Slavery in U.K., But Convictions Stall
A record number of people were charged with modern slavery offences in Britain this year, prosecutors revealed on Thursday, but activists said the number of convictions had not increased significantly since a tough new law was introduced in 2015.
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Trade Tensions, Labor Shortages Loom Over U.S. Factories
U.S. manufacturing activity slowed in July amid signs that a robust economy and import tariffs were putting pressure on the supply chain, which could hurt production in the long term.
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Honeywell Eyes Supplier Shift to Avoid Tariff Hit
U.S. industrial conglomerate Honeywell International Inc said on Friday it had started sourcing some of its components from countries other than China to counter growing costs related to a tariff war between the world’s two largest economies.
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Manufacturing, Mining Power U.S. Industrial Production
U.S. industrial production increased in June, boosted by a sharp rebound in manufacturing and further gains in mining output, the latest sign of robust economic growth in the second quarter.
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China's Chickens Need to Lay a Billion Eggs a Day. Here's How They're Going to Do It.
Behind a row of sealed red incubator doors in a new facility in northern China, about 400,000 chicks are hatched every day, part of the rapidly modernizing supply chain in China’s $37bn egg industry, the world’s biggest.
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