U.S. President Donald Trump’s duties on imported metals are creating winners and losers – and challenges for businesses — in the American Midwest. Poplar Bluff, Missouri is home to MidContinent Nail Corporation—the first company to lay off workers linked to the tariffs on imported steel. But another nail factory in the same city – one that uses U.S. sourced steel – is so far surviving. In a steel mill – in neighboring Illinois – those same duties have been helping other workers get their jobs back.(…)
