Early last week, Reuters reported the U.S. and Chinese governments reached a plan to roll back tariffs on one another’s goods in a “phase one” trade deal if that deal is completed. (As The Wall […] Read More
News in North American Manufacturing
Early last week, Reuters reported the U.S. and Chinese governments reached a plan to roll back tariffs on one another’s goods in a “phase one” trade deal if that deal is completed. (As The Wall […] Read More
President Donald Trump must decide by this Wednesday, November 13 whether to use his Section 232 trade powers to impose trade penalties on imports of European automobiles. (As a reminder, as CNBC explained, after the […] Read More
Last week, the Trump administration formally notified the United Nations that the United States will remove itself from the Paris climate change accord. President Donald Trump pledged in 2017 to withdraw from the agreement. The […] Read More
The Canadian economy lost 1,800 jobs in the month of October, including 40,900 jobs in the services sector, which includes the manufacturing and metals industry. (The manufacturing sector alone lost 23,100 jobs.) Analysts had […] Read More
The IHS Markit Global Steel Users Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), which is a composite indicator designed to give an accurate overview of operating conditions at manufacturers identified as heavy users of steel, was at […] Read More