Bridgestone

Detroit's Big Three are in hiring mode again, and Japanese automakers are building cars in the U.S. to export to Asia. And they aren't the only ones ramping up U.S. production. Is America at the beginning of a new industrial age? The answer lies in China.

In an interesting demonstration of the extreme specificity of international trade, China's Ministry of Commerce recently levied a 30 percent tariff on imports of a specific artificial fiber -- nylon 6 -- from the United States, Russia, the European Union and Taiwan. Monday's announcement was...

Bridgestone is recalling 127,000 Firestone tires sold in 2007 and 2008 -- nearly doubling an earlier recall of tires from the same line, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced. All the tires involved are FR380 P235/75R15.Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC, formerly...