Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross touted the Trump administration’s more aggressive stance on trade issues in a post on the White House’s blog, saying the U.S. can “no longer afford to be ignorant or naive” in the global marketplace.

Ross said tat his department had pursued investigations into dumping of more than $1 billion of aluminum and metal imports from China and other countries and had imposed duties on imports of more than $2 billion in foreign steel and other products.

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