A former top US diplomat foresees global trade tensions escalating this week as US President Donald Trump imposes the first of many threatened tariffs on China

Doug Field, Tesla’s head of engineering, won’t return to the company after a taking a leave of absence, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipbuilder by sales, said Sunday it has slashed a third of its executives in its offshore and engineering division as new orders have dried up.

TOKYO - Trade ministers of 16 countries that account for 30 per cent of global trade have re-affirmed their resolve for a regional trade deal that will benefit economies at different levels of development.

Canada announced billions of dollars in retaliatory tariffs against the US today in a tit-for-tat response to the Trump administration's duties on Canadian steel and aluminum.

LONDON — The United Kingdom's Brexit plans hit another major bump Friday when global aviation giant Airbus threatened to pull out of the country if the government leaves the European Union without a deal on future trading relations.

"We oppose the act of extreme pressure and blackmail by swinging the big stick of trade protectionism," a spokesman for China's Commerce Ministry …

Airbus has cut the ribbon on a new A320 family aircraft production line at its Hamburg, Germany facility.  Hamburg joins existing A320 final assembly lines at Toulouse, France; Tianjin, China; and Mobile, United States.

President Donald Trump wants to level the playing field for American companies in the global economy, but his combative stance has unsettled business plans from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

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