A court fight over President Donald Trump’s decision to end a US policy that exempted small-value packages from China from tariffs is moving ahead over the administration’s opposition.A federal judge on Thursday denied the US Justice Department’s request to pause litigation over what’s known as the “de minimis” tariff exception while a broader fight over Trump’s move to raise global tariffs on imported goods is pending.

And an electronics manufacturer said President Donald Trump’s sweeping policy changes are “raising hell with businesses.” These accounts — and the picture they paint about the US economy — come from various surveys of businesses released this week from the Federal Reserve,