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...Navarro, referred to by Trump as “my Peter”, escapes several attempts to sideline him....
...But people close to the discussions said the “wild west” atmosphere that used to define the trade team, particularly when Gary Cohn held Mr Kudlow’s role and opposed many of the protectionist policy ideas...
...Beyond the lay-offs in Michigan, US Steel cut jobs in Gary, Indiana, East Chicago, Illinois, and the Iron Range of Minnesota, blaming “challenging market conditions”....
...White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said he was not a candidate to replace Gary Cohn after the former Wall Street banker resigned as President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser on Tuesday....
...A pro-trade Republican, he was seen by many in Washington as an important balancing voice to trade hawks in the administration — including Peter Navarro, the former academic economist who has become one...
...Mr Navarro had been operating for months out of view, sidelined by Mr Cohn and others....
...Mr Navarro is one of the economic nationalists within the Trump administration vying for the president’s ear with pro-free trade advisers led by Gary Cohn, the head of the National Economic Council....
...Mr Navarro told the FT there were “two structural problems” that needed solving....
...The resignation of Gary Cohn as the president’s top economic adviser ends the tenure of a steady and centrist influence who presided over one of the few well functioning power centres in the White House....
...This was partly under the influence of Gary Cohn, the former National Economic Council director, who understood the market sensitivity of its work. Recently, officials have become more vocal....
...“Young Kim is really a vision of what the American dream is all about,” said Michael Navarro, a 24-year-old Hispanic supporter....
...During his brief tenure at the White House, Gary Cohn, the former top Goldman Sachs banker, was a strong advocate of free trade....
...Peter Navarro, a top Trump trade adviser, told Fox Business that the president would sign a proclamation on Thursday that would see the tariffs go into effect in 15-30 days....
...He tweeted: Gary Cohn was a solid, constructive interlocutor for me in the Trump administration....
...Mr Trump took more senior officials to Davos than any of his predecessors and the officials in this caravan — Gary Cohn, Dina Powell, Steven Mnuchin, Jared Kushner, Wilbur Ross, Elaine Chao, HR McMaster,...
...Mr Navarro is reportedly in the running to replace him....
...WILBUR ROSS Commerce secretary, an advocate of high tariffs on steel and aluminium ROBERT LIGHTHIZER US trade representative, seen as one of the key drivers of the president’s economic agenda PETER NAVARRO...
...In the short term, the result is likely to be a powershift toward economic nationalists such as Peter Navarro, a trade adviser, and Wilbur Ross, commerce secretary, both advocates of high tariffs on steel...
...His defeat underscored the influence in the White House of Peter Navarro, a China hawk who is close to the president....
...For Mr Lighthizer, as well as Peter Navarro, the chief trade hawk in the White House, the goal is not only to disentangle the US from its Chinese supply chains, and to shift production back home, but to...
...And this morning, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro denied being a candidate to replace Mr Cohn....
...Leading corporate lobbyists in Washington said the departure of Gary Cohn, a centrist force in the White House policy maelstrom, could endanger the economic gains flowing from recent corporate tax cuts and...
...According to Chinese and US officials, Mr Liu last year identified Gary Cohn, the former Goldman Sachs executive and Mr Trump’s first national economic adviser, and Wilbur Ross, commerce secretary, as conduits...
...Asked on Tuesday how the Trump administration planned to avoid hitting consumers with higher prices as part of its trade fight with Beijing, Peter Navarro, a senior White House trade adviser, pleaded good...
...Peter Navarro, a former academic economist, and author of the 2011 book Death by China, is one of Mr Trump’s most abrasive and hardline trade advisers....
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