US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and violent G20 summit in Germany at odds even with America’s traditional Western allies. Negotiators from the world’s 20 top economies were expected to have worked all night trying to hammer out a final summit statement that at least gives the impression … Read more
Foreign steel producers on Wednesday called for prudence as the Trump administration considers possible actions to shield domestic companies from unfair imports on national security grounds. The remarks came at a public hearing as part of a Commerce Department investigation into the effects steel imports on US national security. The adminstration is similarly scrutinizing aluminum … Read more
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered an expedited probe into US steel imports in a bid to bolster “America First” production and jobs — a move that risks trade blowback from steel-making giant China. Trump signed a presidential memorandum for the Commerce Department to start the investigation under a little-used law, Section 232 of the … Read more