Business Matters

The European Commission has given approval for steep tariffs on electric vehicles made in China. It closes an investigation which started a year ago. They will remain in place for five years.We examine why there is such a high unemployment rate in one of the key swing states in US ahead of the Presidential Election. Our focus is on the swing state of Nevada, and some of the concerns of the people living there. Homeware giant Ikea, says it will put money into a planned hardship fund for victims of the former communist regime in East Germany. This includes political prisoners who were forced to make Ikea products. Presenter Rahul Tandon discusses these and other global business stories with Mehmal Sarfraz a journalist based in Pakistan and Emily Peck the Markets correspondent for Axios based in New York in the US.