Northeast Indiana area jobs, products on fringes of tariff tiff

Marty Schladen and Jenni Glenn, The Journal Gazette

mschladen@jg.net; jglenn@jg.net

A trade dispute with China over tires and chicken hits closer to home here than in most other regions.

Indiana is among the top states in per-capita production of export products. And many of the top products exported to China - electrical machinery and equipment and aircraft and spacecraft equipment, for example - are made in northeast Indiana, said Michael Hicks, director of Ball State University's Bureau of Business Research.