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    What's In Your Shopping Cart? A Battleground For Global Trade

    As a trade war brews between the U.S. and its major trading partners, we looked into the carts of back-to-school shoppers to see how global trade might show up in their baskets
    by Alina Selyukh Aug 14, 2018 3 minutes
    Andrea Conyers and her daughter Aviana, 7, went back-to-school shopping in Hinesville, Ga., earlier this month.

    Seven-year-old Aviana Conyers bounces around the bustling back-to-school aisles of a Walmart Supercenter. She grabs her second-grade supply list from her mother, Andrea.

    "Mama, do you have any pencils in your bag?" Aviana asks, eager to cross off items on her second-grade supply list.

    As the items come together inside the Conyers' shopping cart at the Walmart in Hinesville, Ga., it tells the story of America's place in the world. There are crayons, glue sticks, hand sanitizer and tissues

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