Commerce

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Once again, Commerce Department shows how to target China on trade without tariffs

Erin Dunne · November 1, 2018 10:42 pm

Red hot steel is rolled into coils at a steel factory in Brazil.

Commerce watchdog to probe Trump administration’s handling of steel and aluminum tariffs

Sean Higgins · November 1, 2018 6:31 pm

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer speaks at the 9th China Business Conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AmCham China are hosting the event. The U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs on $150 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what it argues are Beijing's unfair trade practices and its requirement that U.S. companies turn over technology in exchange for access to its market. China has said it would subject $50 billion of U.S. goods to tariffs if the U.S. taxes its products. A delegation led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Lighthizer and trade adviser Peter Navarro will visit Beijing for negotiations later this week.

Business alarmed as Trump administration refuses exemptions for China tariffs

Sean Higgins · October 25, 2018 9:21 pm

In this Thursday, Oct. 30, 2014, file photo, houseboats float in the drought-lowered waters of Oroville Lake near Oroville, Calif. Lake Oroville, the State Water Project's principal reservoir, is dipping toward its record low set in 1977.

Beltway Confidential

California’s government started the Dust Bowl — and Trump might save it

Tiana Lowe Doescher · October 23, 2018 9:19 pm

Supreme Court blocks Wilbur Ross deposition in challenge to Census citizenship question

Melissa Quinn · October 23, 2018 2:38 pm

Maryland asks Supreme Court to uphold its generic drug anti-gouging law

Robert King · October 19, 2018 5:33 pm

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross speaks in Oxon Hill, Md.

Energy and Environment

Wilbur Ross opens new front in trade war with $11M in fish farm grants

John Siciliano · October 17, 2018 9:21 pm

In this June 5, 2018, file photo, steel pipes are seen through a roll of steel at the Borusan Mannesmann Pipe manufacturing facility in Baytown, Texas.

Trump administration granting thousands of exclusions to steel tariffs, one in every five

Sean Higgins · October 12, 2018 4:18 am

Sens. John Thune, Roger Wicker, and Jerry Moran are pictured.

Top senators dig into Google following its ‘troubling’ handling of user data exposure

Anna Giaritelli · October 11, 2018 11:20 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Wilbur Ross talked to Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon about 2020 census question on citizenship

Kelly Cohen · October 11, 2018 8:29 pm

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room.

Appeals court denies Trump administration's request to block Wilbur Ross deposition in census question challenge

Melissa Quinn · October 9, 2018 9:37 pm

Sen. John Thune's proposal would begin phasing out the tax credit at 400 percent of the federal poverty level.

Top US businesses push Senate panel to advance nationwide privacy law

Joe Williams · September 26, 2018 2:54 pm