How the Trump Trade War Is Hitting America’s Plastic Industrial Complex

How the Trump Trade War Is Hitting America’s Plastic Industrial Complex

While much of the focus of President Donald Trump’s trade war has been on the United States’ yawning trade deficit with China, the U.S. does have considerable exports going the other way — agricultural products like soybeans, technology products like semiconductors, and fossil fuels and petroleum products. Those exports are not just actual crude oil, but also petrochemical feedstocks, which are a key input for China’s industrial production and …