Home builders, car manufacturers and can makers are among those that will see higher prices for materials. Those companies could charge customers more.

Home builders, car manufacturers and can makers are among those that will see higher prices for materials. Those companies could charge customers more.

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Jacob Long bet his family, his livelihood and his personal philosophy about American craftsmanship on a textile mill in Connecticut.

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President Trump wants to revive factories, using tariffs as a tool. Companies that want to re-shore manufacturing are grappling with how to do it.

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The United States allowed its rare earth metals industry to move to China and could now face severe economic disruption as China limits crucial supplies.

State labor programs were aimed at lifting one of the nation’s poorest regions out of poverty, but they have also served as a tool to erode resistance to Chinese rule.

Trump’s fixation on tariffs while he undermines America’s competitive strengths is hastening the onset of the “Chinese Century.”

Trump’s fixation on tariffs while he undermines America’s competitive strengths is hastening the onset of the “Chinese Century.”

The flow of video between China and the United States raises strange possibilities — whether national image-making or hawking consumer goods.

A House Republican bill introduced this week would do away with tax credits that had encouraged Americans to buy electric vehicles and automakers to invest in new factories.

The technological success that has captured the attention of many in the United States is one aspect of the Chinese economy. There’s another, gloomy one.

The temporary lowering of tariffs may compel some U.S. businesses to order goods that they had held off buying after President Trump raised them to 145 percent.

For years, the leader of China has planned to make the world dependent on its exports and know-how. But the strategy has costs for his own country.

A movement of manufacturing to Vietnam that began in President Trump’s first term is accelerating as sky-high U.S. tariffs block Chinese exports.

The Trump administration could use the investigation to impose new tariffs on imported planes, jet engines and other aerospace parts.

Can a small Massachusetts start-up perfect a battery that would make electric vehicles cheaper and more convenient than conventional cars?

Shipments of goods to the United States plunged by 21 percent in April, but spiked to Asia as President Trump imposed sky-high tariffs on China.

The chief executive of Detroit Axle, which sells car parts that are mostly imported from China, is adjusting his business and hoping for a new trade deal.

Morocco is linked to Europe on the strength of its auto sector and a trade pact. But its status as a connector country has become precarious in the trade war.

Mattel, the U.S. toy company, said it would increase prices of some U.S. toys, citing levies on Chinese imports.

As a U.S. tax loophole ends, the apparel makers that sell to America are forced to consider alternative markets or cheaper locations in and outside China.

The threat of 46 percent levies, among the highest for any country, is rattling Vietnam’s factory managers and workers, as well as thousands of exporters.

Tariffs on imported parts will have a broad impact because all vehicles use components made abroad.

Despite mounting financial pressure, China says it won’t negotiate until the Trump administration shows “sincerity” by canceling tariffs on its goods.

E-commerce trade in small parcels brought Chinese factories to American shoppers. Tariffs are severing the connection.

Most levies on imported cars and car parts will remain in place, but automakers have secured some relaxation of the trade policy.

On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. companies that have come to rely on Vietnam’s factories, like Apple and Nike, are in a bind because of Trump’s tariffs.

A slowdown in commerce between the United States and China caused by escalating tariffs was evident in a report Wednesday on manufacturing activity in April.

Trump’s approach risks leaving U.S. automakers isolated and incapable of competing on their own merits as foreign companies bolt ahead.