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During the trip, Holcomb will meet with government officials from Ottawa, Ontario, Montreal and Quebec to discuss international trade, economic ... Holcomb will be joined by Indiana Secretary of Commerce Jim Schellinger, First Lady Janet Holcomb, Gary Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson and Ports of Indiana ...

Unswayed by Republican warnings of a trade war, President Donald Trump ordered steep new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to fight back against an "assault on our country" by foreign competitors. The president said he would exempt Canada and Mexico as "a ...

Speaking on CNN's "State of the Union," White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said: "At this point in time there's no country exclusions." Trump's announcement Thursday ... But Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Sunday that was not the direction the president would take. "He's talking about a fairly ...

Holcomb and his top economic development official, Commerce Secretary Jim Schellinger, traveled to 11 countries and 31 cities in 2017. The Indiana Economic Development Corp. said those efforts resulted in 40 trade deals that came with promises to create 5,607 Indiana jobs and $1.87 billion in capital ...

Indiana government leaders and business-boosting organizations, from the Indy Chamber to the newly launched World Trade Center Indianapolis, are plotting ways to boost global ... Our governor and commerce secretary have a focus on global trade; they've been very supportive of what we're doing.

The Agribusiness Council of Indiana has merged with the Indiana Seed Trade Association, the associations announced Wednesday. The merged organization will operate under the Agribusiness Council of Indiana name. ACI members voted in December to approve the merger, which was completed Jan.

Opinion polls give Mr. Trump a low rating, and I would, too, for character, personality and temperament. But I would give him high .... While admittedly a gamble, he promised to address the trifecta of poor trade deals, an end to needless foreign wars and a crackdown on immigration. On these three goals, ...

The House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, at which Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced more than five hours of questions, was supposed to be about oversight of the Justice Department. The committee's Republicans appeared to have missed that memo. Instead, they toggled between ...

Indianapolis' Cultural Trail has been called “a linear welcome mat,” “a directional sign” and “a marketer's dream.” Another descriptor attached to the eight-mile trail that winds through downtown and past local works of art and cultural landmarks and on into Fountain Square? “Surprising.” Focus trail factbox ...

Globally, a median of 72% disapprove of Trump's proposal to withdraw the U.S. from major international trade pacts. Majorities in Japan (66%) and Vietnam (61%) hold this view, as do 72% in the Philippines and 80% in South Korea. The survey was conducted after Trump signed an executive order ...

Maurer and Schloss announced on Friday that 47-year-old Nathan Feltman, a former secretary of commerce under Gov. Mitch Daniels and former president of Home Health Depot, has signed a deal to become an equal partner with the duo that bought the business publication in 1990. For now, each of the ...

Frenzy of warehouse projects fueled partly by e-commerce. September 16, 2017. Scott Olson .... to their facilities,” Duke's Podell said at the Power Breakfast. “Some of these large e-commerce buildings are taking [1,200] to 1,500 employees, so it's starting to create this real base of almost a fight for labor, so to speak.”

Located at 1417 Commerce Ave., about a block northeast of the sprawling Circle City Industrial Complex at 10th Street and East Brookside Avenue, the building was constructed in 1898 as part of the Brookside Lumber and Coal Co. In 1950, the Harry C. Ent Materials Co. redeveloped the property as a ...

The spectacle of President Trump's efforts to humiliate the attorney general into resigning has transfixed the country. But while we are busy staring at the wreckage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' relationship with the man he supported for the presidency, there is something more insidious happening.

The two teams came together on the trade Friday just hours before the free agent market was set to open, said the people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade was not official. It is not expected to be finalized until the moratorium ends, but that didn't stop the rest of ...

Sweetwater ships more than $500 million in products annually from its 44-acre campus in Fort Wayne—and 99.8 percent of the 5,000 orders placed daily are shipped the same day. (Photos courtesy of Sweetwater Sound Inc.) Sweetwater Sound has come a long way from its roots in the late 1970s in a ...

Steff will serve as deputy assistant secretary for manufacturing in the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, according to a press release from Steff's office. He was appointed by President Donald Trump and will be sworn into office June 5. In his new position, Steff will oversee ...

E-commerce company VMInnovations said Tuesday that it plans to invest $4.75 million to open a distribution center in Plainfield that is expected to create 75 jobs by 2021. The Lincoln, Nebraska-based company said the warehouse and logistics center, its fourth nationally, will be used to ship home and ...