Editors note: This is a very big step to add Chinese entities to the Department of Commerce’s Entity List. It is the first time any government has challenged China’s human rights abuses this way. WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The U.S. government widened its trade blacklist to include some of China’s top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing…

Editors note: This excerpt from Secretary Ross’ oped is very good, signaling a sea change in how trade is thought about. “Thanks to President Donald J. Trump, the United States is no longer subsidizing the growth of other countries at the expense of American jobs and American wages. In the post-World War II world, the…

Excerpt: “This is comically bad staff work [by the governor’s staff]: there are no tariffs on inbound recycled scrap and there is an abundance of cheap scrap on domestic soil,” said Peter Navarro WASHINGTON — The White House has slammed Gov. John Bel Edwards over the governor’s remarks about the recent closure of a LaPlace steel mill. [Elizabeth Crisp…