Colorado politicians are celebrating new rules allowing potato sales in the Mexican interior. Potato farmers, though, have been burned before.
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Opinion: Cuba connections present opportunities to benefit Colorado
At first glance, Cuba and Colorado appear to have little in common. One of the most prosperous states in the U.S. presents a stark contrast to an impoverished, communist island nation nearly 2,000 miles away. But the interconnections are substantial and even surprising, spanning more than a century to the present day. Two events this […]
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First the trade war, now the coronavirus. Jefferson County gets new tool to tackle international trade
With the ongoing woes of an international trade war and now a global pandemic brewing, Dino Dardano, president of Hestra Gloves, is ready to try a new tool available to him as a business in Jefferson County: foreign trade zones. The county became the latest Colorado community awarded the special designation, which lets businesses postpone […]
Posted inBusiness, News, Politics and Government
Adjusting to life under tariffs, Jefferson County and Grand Junction are pursuing a solution that’s still proving itself in Colorado
Jefferson County and Grand Junction are seeking to become free-trade zones in an effort to attract more business, add jobs and help local companies offset some of the rising cost of international trade. Their applications would provide the regions with a spot for companies to store imported goods and defer or bypass tariff-duty payments. There’s […]
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Why a computer maker moved manufacturing to Denver, despite ongoing trade war with China
Inside the spacious warehouse where solar-energy equipment was once made, about two dozen employees are building the craziest thing to be built in Denver: computers. Major PC makers moved manufacturing overseas long ago, but System76 isn’t known for following others. Its computers don’t have Microsoft Windows, but rather, the open source Linux operating system. The […]
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Colorado company may lose 1,000 jobs from tariffs, and others are prepping for a prolonged trade war
From frozen cuts of pork to leather jackets, tariffs on more than $200 billion of Chinese imports take effect on Monday. On the same day, tariffs on another $60 billion in products headed in the other direction get a retaliatory hike, as imposed by the Chinese government. After more than a few rounds in the […]