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White House plans new measures to protect American technology

by Amy Scott
Jun 25, 2018
The Trump administration is expected to announce new restrictions on Chinese investment in U.S. technology companies later this week. The specifics are unclear. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took to Twitter today to contradict reports that companies with at least 25 percent Chinese ownership will be barred from buying U.S. companies with “industrially significant technology.” The […]
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Trade showdown

Your new tariff questions, answered

by Marketplace Staff
Jun 22, 2018
Bourbon, retaliation and ... more bourbon.
A Chinese worker loads aluminium tapes at a plant in Huaibei, in east China's Anhui Province, in 2017.
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Divided Decade

A look at China's unlikely lingerie capital

by Jennifer Pak
Jun 19, 2018
Guanyun County produces three out of five of the lacy undergarments ordered online in the country.
Midnight Charm is among 500 lingerie manufacturers employing 20,000 people directly. Many seamstresses are housewives who prefer the flexible hours.
Jennifer Pak/Marketplace
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Why the futures market is a way to gauge the economic effects of tariffs

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jun 18, 2018
The United States has imposed tariffs on products from China, Mexico, Canada and the European Union, and retaliatory duties are on the way. What will be the overall economic effect of these trade disputes? One way to gauge that is by looking to the futures market. Click the audio player above to hear the full […]
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As new tariffs are announced, Commerce Dept. faces crunch over exclusion applications

by Reema Khrais
Jun 15, 2018
U.S. tariffs announced today will affect more than 800 products from China, everything from aircraft tires and boat motors to cranes and bulldozers. Government officials say they’ll give U.S. companies the chance to request that certain products they import from China be excluded from the tariffs. Already, thousands of companies have filed applications with the […]
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China announces equal penalties to retaliate for US tariffs

by Associated Press
Jun 15, 2018
The move comes after President Trump announced $50 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods.
Workers stand in line next to a container ship at a port in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province earlier this month.
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Trade showdown

U.S. tariffs boost trade tensions and protectionist theory

by Scott Tong
Jun 14, 2018
Beijing has special rules for the industries of tomorrow while Washington is protecting aging sectors.
A worker trims a newly cast steel slab at the NLMK Indiana steel mill in March in Portage, Indiana.
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China touts its economic reforms amid U.S. tariff threats

by Jennifer Pak
Jun 7, 2018
But Chinese officials have not appeased the United States by opening strategic sectors, such as health care and the internet.
A 40th anniversary celebration of China's economic reforms in Shanghai.
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China's quiet hunt to hire top U.S. researchers

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jun 5, 2018
Academics at U.S. schools are being recruited to help build the Chinese economy.
In a picture taken in 2010 Professor Shi Yigong, who walked away from a top research position in the United States to become the dean of the School of Life Sciences at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 2008, places a note among bottles of bacterial culture in a university lab in Beijing.
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ZTE provides a lens into U.S.-China technology and data war

by Scott Tong
Jun 4, 2018
Beijing has ambitious plans to end its dependence on U.S. semiconductors and other technologies.
The ZTE office building in Shanghai.
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