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Trade War With China Heats Up, But Tariff Effects Are Already Rippling Across U.S.

Trade tensions have reached a boiling point with tit-for-tat tariffs between the U.S. and China. But even before these levies went into effect other tariffs were having a big impact on U.S. companies.
An LG washing machine plant in Clarksville, Tenn., seen under construction in January, is expected to bring 600 jobs.

Several months into the Trump administration's aggressive rollout of tariffs on imported products, the results are piling up across the American business landscape. And not all of them are negative.

In Hillsboro, Ore., a solar plant got a second chance at life after tariffs on imported solar panels went into effect in January.

In Clyde, Ohio, Whirlpool says because of tariffs on imported

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