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...Domestic steel prices have improved since former President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on imports and demand increased from the car industry....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 23, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...In addition, US consumers mostly purchase imports from China, making Muji products seem overpriced in comparison....
...President Trump whose company makes children’s scooters, warned in his written submission that the tariffs were “likely to put our entire company of 100 people ‘Out of Business’ . . . producing in the USA...
...In September last year, Novartis said it would sell parts of the Sandoz US business to Aurobindo Pharma USA to focus on “higher growth areas”....
Amid US trade tensionss President Trump continues to mull tariffs on car imports, China may be the answer for Japanese carmaker
...It comes at a time when some US steelmakers are enjoying bumper profits as a result of tariffs on imports of the metal imposed by President Donald Trump....
...On Thursday, Novartis said it would sell portions of the Sandoz US portfolio to Aurobindo Pharma USA in order to focus on “higher growth areas”....
...pipeline of steel slabs, so we would have inventory, but I’m afraid that the time would come very soon where we would look at our ability to stay in business,” said Bob Miller, chief executive of NLMK USA...
...USA, jobs in the USA — it’s all fine....
...With his threats to impose punitive tariffs on Chinese imports, rip up trade deals and force companies such as Apple to bring manufacturing home to the US, Donald Trump has offered a protectionist vision...
...Ray Barrell, Professor, Brunel University and VA Research A tightening of monetary policy involves an increase in real interest rates....
...European nations are heavily dependent on energy imports from Russia to power their economies....
...“We don’t import and then assemble, we manufacture here. And that’s a huge step,” says Michael Kobold, company founder....
...(Bloomberg) - Surprise: Low-income US workers suffer more from China import competition than high-income workers. (Wall Street Journal) - Spare a thought for Wolfgang Schäuble....
...US fetail sales, import prices, business inventories. Japan’s core machinery orders rose 4.9% in June from a year earlier, exceeding economist estimates for a 2.6% gain....
...Chinese consumers’ love of pork overtook that of the USA quite a while ago: 4....
...Its potential benefit would come when the US lifted a ban on imports of drugs made at the two factories, in effect since September 2008 and which all but shut down production at the plants....
...Wholesale tea sales have grown from $1.84bn in 1990 to $8.2bn in 2011, and the retail industry is worth $27bn, according to the Tea Association of the USA....
...The US Energy Information Administration this month predicts that US oil imports will fall to their lowest level for more than 25 years next year, as production booms at the same time as demand grows only...
...As one of China’s biggest agricultural imports, the crop is also closely linked to inflation rates there....
...“Ask yourself what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed,” he said, standing in front of a pile of crates stamped “Made in the USA”...
...Meanwhile, the higher energy imports necessitated by shutting down almost all the country’s nuclear reactors helped turn the trade balance negative for 2011, and is also weighing on Japan’s current account...
...China’s April exports were 4.9% higher, year-on-year, while imports rose 0.3%. Analysts had expected 8.5% and 11% growth, respectively, reports MarketWatch....
...Mr Cochrane worked for 12 years as an import consultant, advising companies on how to source furniture from Asia to sell in the US....
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