California manufacturing jobs, No. 1 in US, face trade war unknowns

America’s long-languishing factory jobs are a focal point of the Trump administration’s global tariff battles.
The White House argument supporting higher taxes on various imports is that unfair trade policies have, among other things, crushed American manufacturing. Cheap foreign goods made it hard for U.S. factories to compete, this logic argues. Tariffs would swiftly increase the prices of foreign-made products, giving domestic production an advantage. Not to mention, these trade-r