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China’s new rules could hit U.S. firms, send a message to Biden
China fired back at the Trump administration on Saturday with new rules that would punish global companies for complying with Washington’s tightening restrictions on doing business with Chinese...
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How China won Trump’s trade war and got Americans to foot the bill
While trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economic powers didn’t start under Trump, he broadened the fight with the unprecedented tariffs and sanctions on technology companies. The tougher...
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China demands US lift Xinjiang cotton, tomato import ban
BEIJING (AP) — China on Thursday demanded Washington drop a ban on cotton and tomato imports from its Muslim northwest over complaints they are produced by forced labor, which a spokesman dismissed as...
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Xi asks Starbucks’ Schultz to help repair US-China ties
China's President Xi Jinping is reportedly asking former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to help repair U.S.-Chinese relations that have been strained by a tariff war and tension over technology and...
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Boeing curbed rocket test over hydraulics issue, NASA says
Boeing Co.’s test of the largest rocket in U.S. history ended earlier than expected on Jan. 16 because a hydraulic-system setting exceeded a preset limit, dealing another setback to the company’s space...
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In a first, the CDC says to use masks indoors when not home
Americans should be wearing a mask indoors whenever they're outside their own home, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending for the first time as COVID-19 surges across the...
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Biden signs executive order bolstering ‘Buy American’ provisions
President Biden signed an executive order aimed at strengthening “Buy American” provisions that encourage the federal government to purchase goods and services from U.S. companies, a move that labor...
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Biden’s commerce secretary pick pledges tough line on China, does not detail...
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo pledged to help the American economy recover from the pandemic, to expand broadband access to regions with patchy Internet connections and to promote manufacturing and...
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Lobster biz braces for Chinese New Year impacted by pandemic
Chinese New Year is typically one of the busiest parts of the calendar for America's lobster shippers, who send millions of dollars worth of the crustaceans to China every year. With the coronavirus...
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Fuel cell-truck startup Hyzon to merge with blank-check firm led by Seattle...
Fuel cell-truck startup Hyzon Motors agreed to a merger with a blank-check company led by Erik Anderson, the founder and CEO of Seattle-based investment firm WestRiver Group, in a deal that values the...
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Microsoft says Google, Facebook should pay publishers for news
Microsoft said the U.S. should adopt its own version of a proposed Australian law that would force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for the value their stories generate on the internet giants'...
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Norwegian fishing tycoon may take a new role in Washington state’s economy
The Norwegian billionaire who decades ago founded Seattle's American Seafoods now seeks to run the big silicon plant in Moses Lake.
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Chip shortages making it hard to find laptops — and cars | Commentary
Shortages of computer chips are limiting production of a wide range of electronics, including laptops, printers and video game consoles. So be patient. Shop around. And try not to break anything...
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Dole, purveyor of pineapples and bananas, to move HQ to Dublin in merger deal
Dole Food Company will merge with Irish firm Total Produce to form the world's largest fresh produce company.
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Seattle and Tacoma are a rarity among U.S. ports right now, with room for...
The trade gateways in the U.S. Pacific Northwest that handle the flow of containers, cars and commodities are standing out for their calm relative to the congestion bedeviling ports from Los Angeles to...
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Biden Commerce chief says steel, aluminum tariffs ‘effective’
Tariffs that Donald Trump placed on foreign steel and aluminum may not be abolished any time soon. Industry groups representing the top U.S. steel producers and the United Steelworkers union support...
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Canadian pension fund reportedly considers shrinking stake in Puget Energy,...
The investment group is working with an adviser to reduce its 31.6% stake by about 10 percentage points, according to people familiar with the matter.
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COVID-19 even affects apples: Washington farm exports crimped by...
Foreign buyers are eager for farm goods from Washington and other states. But thanks to the strange effects of COVID-19 on global shipping, U.S. farm exports are barely moving, which means apples, hay...
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$29 billion railroad merger to connect U.S., Mexico and Canada
A $29 billion deal would create the first railroad network connecting the U.S., Mexico and Canada. It's an effort by Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern to capitalize on an expected increase in...
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Massive cargo ship becomes wedged, blocks Egypt’s Suez Canal
The MV Ever Given, a massive cargo ship, has turned sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial east-west waterway for global shipping, according to satellite data accessed Wednesday.
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