Why Trump’s trade war can’t bring back the jobs of the past

Alabama business faces hurdles creating American-made product

The sweeping tariffs imposed by President Trump are already impacting the global economy. But if tariffs are meant to bring jobs home, what happens if the U.S. may no longer have all the tools to do the work? Paul Solman reports on the hurdles one man in Alabama faced while trying to make a product entirely in America and what it suggests about the challenges ahead.

This is ground zero in Trump's trade war

LOS ANGELES – Normally, the towering green crane in the Everport Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles would be busy unloading hulking container ships. Longshoremen below would flit around in “bomb carts” used to ferry containers from the ship. Big rigs would carry off imported furniture, car parts and clothing to other parts of the country.

This Is Ground Zero in Trump’s Trade War

Normally, the towering green crane in the Everport Terminal at the Port of Los Angeles would be busy unloading hulking container ships. Longshoremen below would flit around in “bomb carts” used to ferry containers from the ship. Big rigs would carry off imported furniture, car parts and clothing to other parts of the country. But on a recent Thursday morning, the 300-foot crane sat idle, a casualty of the tariffs that President Trump has imposed…

One chart shows an under-the-radar reason Trump's trade war could hurt US stocks

TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty ImagesApollo flagged a less-talked-about reason the trade war could impact the US stock market. The firm's top economist pointed to the record-high foreign ownership in US stocks.A lower US trade deficit means fewer dollars held overseas that could make their way back to US markets. The trade war could be inflationary and create headwinds to growth, but there's another reason Donald Trump's tariffs could negatively…

Why Trump’s trade war can’t bring back the jobs of the past

By Eduardo García & Sandra Sadek | Edited by Dudley AlthausAs the head of a mid-sized auto parts company, Óscar Cázares had long considered how to respond if President Donald Trump slapped tariffs on Mexican-made components.

Trump's trade wars undermine WTO-led globalization

The World Trade Organization promised a future of unlimited growth, but became a bogeyman for the left. Now its future is increasingly clouded thanks to Donald Trump. A look at globalization's troubled past and uncertain future.