Bloomberg Arnold Kamler has experienced the trade dispute between President Donald Trump and China first hand, and is trying to respond as quickly as possible. His company, Kent International Inc., assembles about 400,0 00 bikes annually at its factory in Manning, South Carolina. But this is no shield from the latest round of tariffs, since — in an effort to ...

As the US-China trade war escalates, with both parties imposing higher tariffs on the other, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross tried to defuse some of the tension. Because America’s 10 percent tariff on some $200 billion worth of Chinese imports is “spread across thousands and thousands of products,” he noted, “nobody is going to actually notice it at the end ...

The ongoing fight for talent in the retail industry appears to be kicking into higher gear. Bloomberg News’s Matthew Boyle wrote that Walmart Inc. has surveyed workers about whether perks such as child-care services or gym memberships would be “meaningful” to new hires. It’s just the latest example of a growing focus on the workforce. J.C. Penney Co. is reportedly ...