Manufacturing sees strong job growth despite Trump’s trade wars

Published December 7, 2018 2:04pm ET



The manufacturing sector showed strong hiring through November in the jobs report released Friday, suggesting that the Trump administration’s tariffs are not having a strong negative effect on the economy, at least not so far.

The administration’s tariffs have increased the prices of the key raw materials of steel and aluminum, putting a squeeze on many companies, but the strength of the economy, with unemployment at a very low 3.7 percent overall, appears to have mitigated those effects.

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