The World Trade Organization this month upped its forecast for global trade growth in 2017 thanks to stronger than expected demand for merchandise in Asia and North America.
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the Trump administration has decided to defer a decision on steel tariffs as it focuses on getting tax reforms through Congress.
Two years ago, a robot crushed a 22-year-old man to death at a Volkswagen AG factory in Germany after the maintenance worker became trapped in an area usually off-bound to humans. While this type of tragedy is still relatively rare, efforts to improve safety are intensifying as factories around the world become increasingly automated.
Output at U.S. factories plunged in August due to the big hit from Hurricane Harvey that shut down huge parts of the nation's oil refining, the Federal Reserve reported last week.
Cowboy hats, fire trucks and baseball bats - these were some of the products put on display at the White House during the "Made in America Week" this summer. While this was mainly a symbolic, PR-motivated show to celebrate American manufacturing, recent policy initiatives by President Trump's administration are aiming to reshape the supply chains of federal agencies and companies across many sectors.
U.S. House lawmakers passed a wide-ranging bill to speed the introduction of self-driving vehicles championed by tech and auto companies racing to develop and deploy the technology.
The U.S. economy added fewer employees than expected in August, the jobless rate rose and wages rose less than forecast, in a break from otherwise solid progress in the labor market.
Hidden within the salt flats high in the Andes mountains of South America are vast deposits of the lithium that Elon Musk may need for his electric-car revolution. But extracting the mineral from brine ponds created by Orocobre Ltd. has proved more difficult than expected.