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Canadian online sellers brace for elimination of duty-free shipping to United States
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 27, 2025
Canadian online sellers are warning that their businesses are under threat as the United States plans to start charging duties on low-value parcels from Friday. Until now, goods worth less than $800 have been allowed to enter the United States...
Wealthy Americans are traveling to Europe to dodge tariffs on luxury goods
CNBC
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August 27, 2025
Visitors and salesmen stand at the booth of Swiss luxury watchmaker and jeweler Piaget, during the "Watches and Wonders Geneva" luxury watch fair, on April 1, 2025. Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images Jamie and her husband are traveling to...
Trump calls out Detroit automakers for investing in the U.S.
Detroit Free Press - Michigan
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President Trump claimed credit for increased U.S. auto production and job creation, citing tariffs and automaker investments. Industry data contradicts Trump's claims, showing overall U.S. auto production down 2% year-to-date. Trump's claim of a...
U.S. Government Takes 10% Stake in Intel Amid Semiconductor Crisis
Times News Global
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August 27, 2025
Santa Clara, California — The U.S. government announced on Friday it will acquire a 10% stake in Intel Corp, a move aimed at strengthening the country’s presence in the semiconductor industry. This significant investment, totaling $8.9 billion, is...
Von der Leyen Faces Revolt Over Trade Concessions to U.S.
The European Conservative
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August 27, 2025
The European Parliament is preparing to challenge the Commission’s plan to cut tariffs on U.S. goods, a move that threatens to undermine Ursula von der Leyen’s authority just as her second mandate begins. The chairman of the Parliament’s...
AM Briefing: FEMA’s Dissent Crackdown
Heatmap News
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August 27, 2025
Current conditions: A large dust storm blew over the Phoenix area, causing damage and airport delays • Typhoon Kajiki made landfall in central Vietnam, leaving at least four dead in flooding as heavy rains deluged Laos and parts of Thailand •...
Visa: Texas, Southern U.S. pulling ahead as national economic growth slows
The Dallas Morning News - Texas
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August 27, 2025
Job growth, strong consumer spending, housing affordability and surging business investment are making the South the fastest-growing regional economy in the U.S., according to a new report from Visa. Economic growth slowed in all four U.S. regions...
Governors, industry and education leaders announce tri-state manufacturing partnership
The Meridian Star - Mississippi
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August 27, 2025
Published 10:51 am Wednesday, August 27, 2025 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Area governors, power company executives and university presidents recently established the Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia Network for Evolving Transportation, or MAGNET for short — a...
Why the Future of Upskilling in Manufacturing Depends on Human-Centered Tech
Supply & Demand Chain Executive
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August 27, 2025
The manufacturing industry is facing three simultaneous challenges: an aging workforce, a growing talent shortage, and escalating pressure to digitize due to economical and geo-political pressures. By 2030, 2.1 million manufacturing roles are...
Brazil Rises as China’s Second-Largest Global Investment Target
The Rio Times
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August 27, 2025
Brazil has become the second-largest destination for Chinese investment worldwide in 2025, according to the American Enterprise Institute’s China Global Investment Tracker. In the first six months alone, Chinese firms invested $22 billion abroad,...
Tribes’ non-gaming business now generates $1B for Michigan’s economy, study finds
Grand Rapids Business Journal - Michigan
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August 27, 2025
A new study out today found Michigan’s 12 federally recognized tribes have grown their influence on the state’s economy “exponentially” over a five-year period, thanks to investments in non-gaming sectors like AI, life sciences and manufacturing....
Forging the Future: Training Center Opens to Train Next Generation of Defense Manufacturers
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 27, 2025
DANVILLE, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES 01.24.2025 Courtesy Story DANVILLE, Va. — The U.S. Navy strengthened its efforts to revitalize the nation's shipbuilding capability with the opening of a new training center in Danville, Virginia. The Accelerated...
THE BIG READ: Mark Carney’s climate balancing act—clean energy promises and fossil fuel realities
Pelham Today
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August 27, 2025
As wildfires rage and global temperatures soar, the Prime Minister faces mounting pressure to define his environmental legacy—will he champion Canada's clean energy potential or continue backing controversial fossil fuel projects? Amid the swirl...
Senator Tammy Baldwin pushing for more shipbuilding to take place in the U.S.
WBAY - Wisconsin
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August 27, 2025
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Senator Tammy Baldwin made an appearance in Green Bay on Tuesday, meeting with local leaders in the manufacturing industry, to push for more shipbuilding to take place in America, rather than overseas. Right now, China is...
India braces for the pain of Trump’s stiff tariffs
Mint
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August 27, 2025
Instead, Trump has turned on India, inflicting a stiff tariff on the country’s imports—duties that will hit billions of dollars of trade and hurt sectors ranging from textiles to farming. On Wednesday, U.S. tariffs of 50% went into effect on...
A U.S. tariff exemption for small orders ends Friday. It's a big deal to some shoppers and businesses
The Item - South Carolina
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By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK - Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the United States this week as part of President Donald Trump's agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods and resetting global...
Venezuela deploys warships as U.S. destroyers loom off coast
CBS News
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Venezuela on Tuesday deployed warships and drones to patrol the country's coastline after the United States dispatched three destroyers to the region to pressure strongman President Nicolas Maduro. In a video on social media, Defense Minister...
Republican lawmakers divided over Trump administration's deal with Intel
FOX Business
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O'Leary Ventures Chair Kevin O'Leary explains why he's not for the government taking a stake in Intel, why Americans are fleeing to Canada and the $12.9 million trading card he purchased. Congressional Republicans are split on how they feel about...
How China built a solar-powered back door into millions of American homes
The Blaze
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August 27, 2025
America is sleepwalking into disaster. The rush to renewables, pitched by many progressives as patriotism in action, is in fact tying America to its greatest rival. The story is sold in sunny ads about cheaper power bills and endless solar arrays...
Natus Medical Incorporated Files Response to U.S. International Trade Commission's Investigation
CityNewsOKC - Oklahoma
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Intends to defend itself against Ceribell's complaint while preserving competition in the industry and improving the quality of patient care MIDDLETON, Wis., Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Natus Medical Incorporated ("Natus" or the "Company"), the...