If the U.S. imposes sweeping tariffs on imports from China early next month as planned, the levies will be felt not only in ports ringing the Pacific, but also across companies, product lines and factory towns in the U.S.
For General Electric Co., that includes its business making magnetic resonance imaging machines, or MRIs, many of which are assembled at plants in Florence, S.C., and Waukesha, Wisc.
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