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West Michigan manufacturers are delaying expansion plans as shifting tariff policies have raised material costs and created uncertainty, experts say.

Companies are preordering inventory and struggling with near-zero industrial vacancy rates while they wait for clearer trade policies.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined 18 other state attorneys general to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education for threatening to withhold federal funds from local education agencies if they do not sign a vague Title VI certification form—Michigan’s education department and others already refused to certify compliance.