Exclusive-Proposed US port fees on China-built ships begins choking coal, agriculture exports

By Lisa Baertlein, Karl Plume and Timothy Gardner LOS ANGELES/CARLSBAD, Calififornia (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad….

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State Dept denies deleting data on halted program tracking abducted Ukrainian children

By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Wednesday denied that data collected in a government-funded program that helps track thousands of abducted Ukrainian children had been deleted, but acknowledged that the effort had been terminated as part of Washington’s sweeping freeze on almost all foreign aid. In a…

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