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Bombardier shares fall on Boeing tariff victory, as focus turns to sales...
Sales prospects for Bombardier’s C Series jetliner, which cost at least $6 billion to develop, dimmed after the U.S. Commerce Department slapped it with preliminary import duties of 220 percent. But...
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Vote: Is the big tariff on Canada’s jet good for America?
What's at stake is more than an individual trade dispute. Please vote, and stay for the top economics links and haiku.
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EU orders Amazon to pay $295 million as it cracks down on multinationals’ tax...
The European Union determined that an agreement Amazon had with Luxembourg allowed the company to avoid paying taxes for years on three quarters of its European profits.
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U.S. begins NAFTA talks with harsh words
The talks that began Wednesday are the first of several scheduled rounds between now and the end of the year, when the three nations hope to conclude a deal — a very fast timetable in the world of...
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U.S. slaps added tariff on Bombardier, quadrupling its jet price after Boeing...
In a second ruling against Bombardier, the Commerce Department decided Friday that the Canadian jetmaker’s pricing of its CSeries plane in the U.S. amounted to “dumping” of goods well below cost, and...
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Kobe Steel’s falsified data deals another blow to Japan’s reputation
Companies from Toyota to Boeing are scrutinizing aluminum supplied by Kobe Steel after it acknowledged quality reports were faked. Piled on earlier revelations, the disclosure “could destroy...
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Boeing gets a lashing from UK Labour party over Bombardier tariff
“Boeing has absolutely been sucking at the milk of corporate welfare in America for far too long,” a spokesman for the opposition Labour Party said. Boeing, meanwhile is buying advertising in London,...
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Get ready for a post-NAFTA recession
The situation with the North American trading bloc has moved beyond heated talk to danger the agreement might collapse. Don't expect many winners.
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In race for an electric-car future, China seeks the lead
Propelled by vast amounts of government money and visions of dominating next-generation technologies, China has become the world’s biggest supporter of electric cars. That is forcing automakers from...
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Whirlpool’s fight with imported washing machines puts new wrinkles in Trump...
The targets are Samsung and LG, two giant South Korean conglomerates that have taken aim at the U.S. appliance market. Whirlpool lawyers want Trump to slap heavy penalties on imports of washers and key...
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Coal-export terminal backer sues state over permit denial
SEATTLE (AP) — A company proposing to build a terminal in Washington state to export U.S. coal to Asia sued the state Tuesday, arguing regulators unfairly denied the project a key permit. Millennium...
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Climate change playing havoc with Mediterranean’s olive oil
The heat wave that swept across southern Europe this summer, which scientists say bore the fingerprints of human-induced climate change, is only the latest bout of strange weather to befall the makers...
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China, U.S. agree to honor each other’s aircraft-safety approvals
While making it easier for companies like Boeing to sell products in China, the agreement also may boost the Asian nation’s burgeoning aviation industry.
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Chinese crackdown may send more recycling to Northwest landfills
China is sharply restricting imports on recycled materials, and the effects are rippling across the Pacific Northwest. Some of those discards might end up in the region’s landfills as China rolls out...
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U.S. moves forward with Canadian lumber tariffs after settlement talks fail
The decision comes as trade relations between the North America neighbors are already on edge.
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Stocks plunge in early trading on `Trade War’ talk
The S&P 500 Index dropped 1 percent and was on track for its worst week in a month, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 300 points after Trump declared trade wars are “easy to...
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AP Newsbreak: WTO concerned about US steel, aluminum tariffs
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Trade Organization says his agency is “clearly concerned” about President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum and is warning of the...
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Unpacking Trump’s tariffs on steel, aluminum imports — and the risk of a...
Columnist Jon Talton explains why we can't use tariffs like these to rebuild America's industrial base. World trade is much more complicated than it was a few decades ago, and the new tariffs could...
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Fact check: Trump’s ‘easy’ trade war defies history
The president tweeted, of trade wars: “... we win big. It’s easy!” But history shows that tariffs have caused widespread, undesirable damage. We take a look.
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World bracing for risk of Trump’s trade war
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to slap taxes on steel and aluminum imports was branded Friday as “absolutely unacceptable” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, the United...
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