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Honda Motor says it will close its car factory in western England's Swindon in 2021, with loss of 3,500 jobs

Honda is to close a car factory in western England with the potential loss of 3,500 jobs, in another blow to a British economy made jittery by Brexit

China accuses Washington of trying to block industry development after Pence calls Huawei and other telecom suppliers a security threat

Historic Italian hat-maker Borsalino maintains Italian footing with private equity backer, focuses on youth, women and Asia for future growth

When Amazon chose the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens to build a new campus, New York's top brass saw it as a major coup but what they didn't anticipate was the deal's eventual unraveling

Correction: Lithium Ion Batteries-Recycling story

The maker of Cleveland's ballpark mustard is removing the Chief Wahoo logo from its branding and packaging to maintain longstanding ties with the Cleveland Indians baseball team

US seeks ways to develop lithium-ion battery recycling to address global demand, potential shortages of materials for electric vehicle, phone batteries

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A man from China has been sentenced to 4½ years in a U.S. prison in a trademark violation case involving counterfeit computer-networking equipment shipped to Texas

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a chemical maker's North Carolina plant may have broken federal law by failing to notify the agency before it started manufacturing and repurposing new industrial compounds

Despite Trump's tough talk on trade, his Commerce Department has approved tariff exemption requests from 370 companies for up to 4.1 million tons of foreign steel

A worker severely burned in a 2018 deadly explosion at a Central Texas hospital has sued a Dallas-based utility seeking more than $1 million

US industrial production fell 0.6 percent in January, led by a plunge in the making of motor vehicles and auto parts

The European carmakers' association says new passenger car sales in the region dropped by 4.6 percent in January, weighed down by big declines in Spain and Italy

Hundreds of companies have been granted permission to import millions of tons of steel made in China, Japan and other countries without paying the hefty tariff Trump put in place

Trump's latest trade decision: Escalate tensions by slapping tariffs on imported cars?

Ikea woos India's rising consumer class, testing new waters in developing markets

North Korea is exploring ambitious alternative energy sources that could reduce its reliance on imports and its vulnerability to sanctions

A major utility company will learn next week whether the use of paid actors to gin up phony support for a new gas-fired power plant will result in the project being delayed or derailed by New Orleans' City Council