Trade Issue Is Reframed for Indiana, North Carolina.

The article reports on the decision of U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to reframe their messages for Indiana and North Carolina, states that have made gains from free trade amid losses from other places. It notes that in the steel-producing region of northwest Indiana, Clinton and Obama blamed China for the decline of manufacturing jobs. According to Indiana's commerce secretary Nathan Feltman, the state is attempting to keep competitive with a combination of low taxes and an aggressive economic-development effort.