Trump’s tariff threats send lobbyists scrambling to find loopholes newsthirst.

In the days since President-elect Donald Trump won the presidential race, Nicole Bivens Collinson’s phone has barely stopped ringing. Collinson, who helps lead the international trade and government relations division at the lobbying firm Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, said she is fielding “dozens and dozens and dozens” of calls from anxious U.S. companies looking to…

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Canada Labor Minister forces unions back to ports after work stoppages newsthirst.

A Canadian Pacific Railway Co. locomotive pulls a train at the Port of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Canadian Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon has invoked federal powers to end work stoppages at the ports of Vancouver, Prince Rupert and Montreal, ordering binding and final arbitration…

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Panama Canal says trade rebound is underway after record drought newsthirst.

After two years of record drought conditions amid a challenging El Nino weather system which decimated vessel transits, the Panama Canal is experiencing a trade rebound. Ricaurte Vásquez, administrator of the Panama Canal Authority, tells CNBC the canal has changed its business model to optimize water usage and improve forecasting in an effort to restore…

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