Hints and tips:
...Bigelow will co-chair Paulson’s fundraiser for Trump on Saturday along with Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, former commerce secretary Wilbur Ross, conservative mega donors Robert and Rebekah Mercer...
...More recent lawsuits have sought to stop President George W Bush’s surveillance programmes after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and President Barack Obama’s healthcare expansion....
...Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, told the FT: “American business is thriving thanks to the decrease in regulations that were holding America back.”...
...“At best this might get us back most of the way to where we were before [new US steel and aluminium] tariffs [went into effect on June 1],” said Philip Levy, a former trade adviser to President George W...
...In the meantime John Kelly, chief of staff, and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders have batted away reports of their imminent departures, while Wilbur Ross, commerce secretary, and Ryan Zinke, secretary...
...Wilbur Ross, the US Secretary of Commerce (and a former investor in distressed steel assets) piled on, describing the contract as a “vision for the economy we should all support.”...
..."The stupidity is that we let ourselves get into this box of extremely low [tariff] rates," Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, told CNBC on Thursday....
...Mr Hernandez’s most recent political appointment was as senior adviser to US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, as well as acting undersecretary of international trade for nine months until December 2017...
...The next generation of Wilbur Ross’, however, will be licking their lips....
...Dennis Wilder, a former top China adviser to George W Bush, said the Trump administration had realised that it was facing an increasingly strong backlash in the US by mounting simultaneous trade wars across...
...Economic nationalists like Wilbur Ross, Mr Trump’s commerce secretary, and Peter Navarro, a former academic who is a trade adviser to the president, have been pushing for him to take tough action....
...At this week’s World Economic Forum, Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, said the US was eager to force fundamental change at the WTO....
...Christine McDaniel, a trade economist who served in the administration of George W Bush and is now at George Mason University, said the uncomfortable reality for Republicans was that Mr Trump’s trade message...
...Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, speaking in a television interview on Thursday, dismissed US business fears as “hyperbole”, pointing to what he called a “booming” US economy....
...Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, said on Thursday that the ball was now in the EU’s court to engage in talks with the US....
...The commissioner is set to meet Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, as well as other administration officials during her two-day visit....
...The last time something like this happened, when George W Bush imposed steel safeguards in 2002, the skirmish could have been scripted....
...“It’s like a Mormon elder buying and selling stocks in whiskey,” said Richard Painter, who served as the chief White House ethics lawyer during the presidency of George W Bush....
...Wilbur Ross, the secretary of commerce, boasts that the initiation of anti-dumping cases is up more than 50 per cent since last January, when the administration took office....
...Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary and a trade hardliner, belittled on Sunday the EU’s planned retaliation, saying the amounts were “pretty trivial”....
...Wilbur Ross, US commerce secretary, has already made it clear that, if the UK wants a far-reaching deal, Washington expects London to depart from close regulatory alignment with the EU....
...President George W Bush in 2002 used the same “safeguards” law to impose temporary tariffs on steel imports....
...“It sends the wrong message to the entire executive branch,” said Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer in the George W Bush White House....
...Barack Obama triggered similar “safeguards” on Chinese tyres in 2009, George W Bush applied tariffs to US steel imports in 2002....
...Mr Ross will resign all of his positions at Atlanta-based asset manager Invesco, which in 2006 bought his own company, W L Ross & Co....
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