U.S. “safeguarding” tariffs on solar panels and washing machines have more-or-less choked off imports but have levied a cost on consumers. The Trump administration’s first WTO case could hurt JCPenney and PVH. Our monthly signal for U.S. imports has hit the highest in five years. Also: aluminum foil imports become one fifth more expensive; Dongkuk suspends steel exports; Singapore’s container traffic soars; Irish whiskey’s popularity in America grows; brighter prospects for British accountants in the U.S.; the IEA’s trade war worries; “Trump time” for tariffs; Shell’s LNG diversion; and ...