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Westinghouse Electric, and XCoal Energy & Resources — all signed deals to sell their goods to Ukraine, including coal, rail cars, and nuclear plant equipment.

Trump was “exchanging political favors” with Ukraine long before the telephone call with the current Ukrainian

president.

The article also shed light on how some Pennsylvania businesses got deals signed that in hindsight could have had political overtones.

nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/…

Ukraine received coal from XCoal, of Latrobe, under an agreement reached by Poroshenko and Trump during the former’s visit to the United States in 2017. The contract helped Ukraine at a time when its key coal resources were being controlled by separatist forces.
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GE Transportation of Erie in 2018 signed a $1 billion agreement with Ukraine, a milestone in the country’s efforts to modernize its transportation infrastructure and strengthen its position as a European rail hub and trade corridor.

inquirer.com/business/xcoal…

Shortly afterwards, GE Transportation was acquired by a publicly traded company called Wabtec. Wabtec’s purchase of the $4 billion-a-year GE Transportation division doubled the size of the company overnight.
The purchase led to the early termination of a national labor contract

with GE. The Erie plant was the last factory covered under a 70-year-old agreement after GE spun off the other factories’ work, largely to nonunion plants in the United States or overseas

bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/new…

Finally, Westinghouse Electric Co. in 2017 signed a deal with the state-owned Ukrainian company PJSC Turboatom to “cooperate on increasing the capacity of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.

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