Lutnick, who was chief executive of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, is a close ally of Trump’s and has been a ...

His role will place him at the frontier of Washington’s tariff and trade agenda. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Japan’s exports rose at a faster clip in January as businesses ramped up orders just as US President Donald Trump unleashed a ...

President Trump has been busy imposing tariffs this month—the initial Mexico and Canada tariffs that were later delayed, a reciprocal tariff affecting a majority of products and a 25% tariff on ...

The Senate confirmed Howard Lutnick on Tuesday to serve as President Donald Trump’s U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

He's likely to spend a lot of time managing the president's aggressive plans to impose import taxes on U.S. trading partners.

President Donald Trump is looking to boost American manufacturing and its competitiveness with tariffs. Last week, the nation’s 47th president moved to reinstate a 25% tariff on steel imports and lift ...

Japan's exports rose for a fourth consecutive month, data showed on Wednesday, signalling that strong global demand is ...

President Donald Trump has renewed his focus on the Value-Added Tax (VAT), arguing it puts the U.S. at a disadvantage in global trade. Now, he’s calling for rec ...

The threat of another trade war has many farmers on edge. Kevin Semlow, executive director of governmental affairs & commodities with the Illinois Farm Bureau, says the organization is stressing the ...

President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States a priority for his ...

"It will be 25% and higher, and it will go very substantially higher over a course of a year," Trump said on Tuesday.