[ Tom Holland| November 28, 2016 |SCMP] Among the few hard and fast policy prescriptions to emerge so far from Donald Trump’s transition team is the US president-elect’s pledge, delivered last Monday, to tear up Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in office. Calling the TPP “a potential disaster for our…
[JOSH DAWSEY, ANDREW RESTUCCIA and JENNY HOPKINSON | December 10, 2016 |Politico] Sen. Heidi Heitkamp has emerged as President-elect Donald Trump’s leading choice for agriculture secretary, sources close to the transition tell POLITICO. The first-term Democrat from North Dakota and member of the Senate Agriculture Committee has been a vocal advocate for farmers and broke from her party on several controversial…
[ KENNETH P. VOGEL | December 09, 2016 |Politico] GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Donald Trump took his pre-inauguration manufacturing job bonanza into this former manufacturing hub on Friday and stood proudly by as the CEO of Dow Chemical announced a new, state-of-the-art innovation center in the state. But the precise number of jobs that would be…
[ Shawn Donnan and Demetri Sevastopulo | December 09, 2016 |Financial Times] Donald Trump wants Wilbur Ross, the billionaire investor tapped for commerce secretary, to oversee his trade policy in a controversial move that could spark a battle between the incoming administration and Congress. Mr Trump has agreed to give Mr Ross, a close friend, responsibility for handling one…
[ Daily News | December 02, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Top officials with the Trump transition team defended the President-elect’s threat of a 35 percent tariff on any U.S. company that offshores its operations and then exports its goods back to the U.S., telling reporters such businesses are effectively “profiting off the backs of U.S.…
By Jeff Ferry President-elect Donald Trump’s and VP-elect Mike Pence’s coup in getting Carrier Corp. to agree to keep some 1,069 jobs in Indiana instead of shipping them to Mexico is not only great news for Carrier employees and their families, but a welcome sign that the new administration will be focused on living up to its…
Michael Stumo, CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, said in a statement to Business Insider that he felt it was “unlikely” Boustany would get the pick because it would be a total “betrayal of Trump’s campaign promises and his base.” “Boustany is a pro-offshoring globalist, untroubled by trade deficits, who opposed fixing currency…
[ MARK MAGNIER and WILLIAM MAULDIN | December 09, 2016 |Wall Street Journal ] China’s 15-year anniversary as a member of the World Trade Organization on Sunday threatens to trigger a clash with growing forces in the West that cast Beijing as an abuser of open global markets. The anniversary marks Beijing’s eligibility for “market-economy status,” which would remove many risks…
[ KRISTINA PETERSON | December 02, 2016 |The Wall Street Journal] Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) urged President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to buck House Republicans and defend his pledges to buy U.S. steel in the face of concerns it has generated among top GOP lawmakers on a water infrastructure bill. “Today we’re…
[ SCOTT N. PAUL | December 08, 2016 |The New York Times] Americans are ready for an economic nationalist to lead them. But that doesn’t mean what you might think. This country, we are taught, was founded on the principles of individualism and free enterprise. But its rise to economic pre-eminence was set in motion by…