International Trade

As more companies bring manufacturing stateside, here’s what they can and can’t say about being American-made.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden ordered emergency measures Monday to boost crucial supplies to U.S. solar manufacturers and declared a two-year tariff exemption on solar panels from Southeast Asia as he attempted to jumpstart progress toward his climate change-fighting goals.

The contracts will support the International Space Station and the Artemis moon program through 2034.

"Farm families are holding their breath at the moment," said John Delmotte, a grower in Monroe County's Raisinville Township.

It’s time-consuming, expensive, and difficult.

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Get your students engaged in econ with a classroom trading game. As trade expands, wealth increases, allowing students to experience for themselves the power...

Endless “sold out” shelves… not again. A baby-formula crisis is rippling through the US, forcing parents to ration supplies or drive hours in...

Indonesia will start restricting exports of palm oil this week, a move that could make the global food crisis worse and push up the prices of hundreds of consumer products.

The ban adds more uncertainty to a global food market suffering from wild price swings.

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From electronics to auto parts, the world has become more reliant on Chinese goods since the pandemic started in 2020, Bernstein analysts said.

One of the busiest trade ports on the U.S.-Mexico border remained effectively closed Wednesday amid new orders requiring extra inspections of commercial trucks.

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As wheat and corn futures continue to surge, and fertilizer prices ride the commodity boom, some investors are reaping big gains

Larry Fink, CEO and chairman of the world's biggest asset manager, BlackRock, said Russia's invasion of Ukraine has ended globalization.

Russia is the largest exporter of nitrogen fertilizers in the world but, due to Western sanctions following its invasion of Ukraine, shipments have been disrupted, supplies have dried up, and prices have soared.

What Russia’s war in Ukraine means for the world economy.

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushes up global wheat prices, food-poor countries in the Middle East face higher prices for everyday staples

China's economy today is completely different than 40 years ago; in 2021 the country makes up the highest share of exports globally.

New interactive practice tool: Have your students identify consumer surplus, producer surplus, and total surplus in a domestic market. Then move onto identifying how consumer and producer surplus changes with international trade.

Washington has previously warned businesses with supply chain and investment ties to China's Xinjiang province that they could face legal consequences.

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Chuck Dardas, president and CEO of AlphaUSA, thought steel prices would have come back down to earth by now, but big domestic steel companies have another idea.In the past year, the spot price of steel has more than tripled. That has led to upward of $10 million in losses for Livonia-based AlphaUSA…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit increased to a record $73.3 billion in August as a small gain in exports was swamped by a much larger increase in imports. The Commerce Department reported Tuesday that the monthly trade deficit increased 4.2% in August, rising to an all-time high, surpassing the previous record of $73.2 billion set in June.

TikTok deal-maker Demi Skipper is on a quest to get a house one trade at a time. Starting with just a bobby pin, Demi gives us a crash course on the economics of bartering.

Every day, millions of tons of goods pass through ports to get to their end consumers. Here are the world's busiest ports, and how numbers have changed.

Chart-topping rapper Rick Ross might portray the lifestyle of a person focused solely on opulence in his songs, but in reality, the self-proclaimed “Biggest Boss” said he works hard and practices frugality to live in the lap of luxury. Currently, the 45-year-old rapper resides in a gorgeous home in Georgia that comes with 109 rooms, including 12 bedrooms and 21 bathrooms, as Blavity previously reported . He purchased the estate which belonged to Evander Holyfield for 5.8 million in 2014 after it went into foreclosure. Ross told Forbes that his neighbors have told him that Holyfield spent a small fortune on lawn care for the property. But the Clarksdale, Mississippi native said he’d rather learn to cut grass himself than pay close to $1 million to maintain the lawn. “When I bought the Fayetteville estate, locals would see me walk out of a restaurant and scream, ‘You know Holyfield spent $1 million a year to cut the grass.’ So I decided that I was gonna cut my own grass. And that’s...

The pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers — whose mother is Mexican American — hit a home run with fans on Twitter.

Backseat in transit vans designed for quick removal was a way to skirt hefty import tariff, government says