Leading Edge - Tariffs effect on Toledo auto industry, BGSU athletic director | April 6, 2025

Art Wheaton - Cornell University | ILR School The U.S. is on the cusp of implementing significant tariff measures. These new trade policies, aimed at reducing the U.S. trade deficit and encouraging domestic production begin this week. But when it comes to the auto industry, a specific 25-percent tariff on imported cars starts Thursday - and there's a tariff that'll take effect May 3rd on imported car parts.Derek van der Merwe - Athletic Director | BGSUIn his short time at the helm, he’s been tasked with hiring a men’s basketball coach, a women’s basketball coach, an ice hockey coach, a women’s soccer coach, a gymnastics coach, a softball coach, a swim and dive coach, and a volleyball coach. And if that wasn’t enough - just in the last few weeks - he signed up OSU and NFL legend Eddie George as the new head football coach.