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Hello and welcome to Business Matters.
I'm Rahul Tandon on the programme today.
A partnership between Japan's Nippon Steel and US Steel gets the green light.
The mayor of one steel town, West Mifflin in Pennsylvania,
has been telling me why he thinks that is good news.
Texas brings in online child safety laws.
Apple's boss, Tim Cook, isn't happy.
We'll find out why.
And how easy is it to be patriotic and only buy goods made in your country?
Quite difficult, it seems.
And I said, well, if I'm going to be working with manufacturers,
the least I can do is support them by buying things made in USA.
So I said, I'm going to buy everything made in the US.
And I had to quickly backtrack on that one.
More on that to come.
It is another particularly busy few hours.
Lots of different news stories coming in.
To guide us through it all, we have Erin McLaughlin,
senior economist at the Conference Board in New York.