About: William Holstein

If the Trump administration makes good on its threat to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), chief executive officers will be forced to engage in a continental reshuffling of their manufacturing and distribution assets. It won’t be easy. And there’s no guarantee that it will bring back all the jobs that […]…

This article by Jacky Wong in today’s Wall Street Journal, pasted in below because of the Journal’s reg wall, makes it clear that stopping China’s technological ambitions is proving impossible despite the wild hopes that the Trump camp is displaying. Tariffs will never deter China’s goals of reaching world-class positions in key technologies, if not […]…

There are some winners, to be sure, but I found in this story for Chief Executive magazine that a majority of CEOs involved in exporting or international trade of some sort are dead-set against the tariffs that President Trump is imposing and the overall tone he is setting with his America First policies…

There’s a fevered competition among American cities vying for Amazon’s highly vaunted second headquarters, to be located in the eastern United States. (Hint: It’s almost certain to be in the Washington D.C. area because CEO Jeff Bezos has purchased the largest home in DC and is expanding it.) Mayors and developers are eager to win […]…

If American trade relations with China explode, the American automobile industry is certain to get hit, according to Automotive News China in this report. General Motors currently sells more cars in China than it does in the United States. A trade disruption could hammer its share price and force the closing of U.S. factories that […]…