Tag: Commerce

Trader Daniel Trimble works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Beltway Confidential

Worried about a recession? Cautious optimism is more fitting

Bruce Yandle · March 7, 2019 8:06 pm

Second federal judge blocks Trump administration's citizenship question

Melissa Quinn · March 6, 2019 7:25 pm

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

Top Trump administration ethics official says Wilbur Ross violated conflict of interest agreement

Colin Wilhelm · February 21, 2019 12:14 am

President Trump speaks near an EU flag at the White House.

Trump says EU auto tariffs will depend on negotiations, not long-awaited Commerce report

Sean Higgins · February 20, 2019 8:26 pm

Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon is pictured.

Wyden calls on Trump administration to release confidential auto tariff report

Sean Higgins · February 19, 2019 11:00 pm

Nissan Motor Co. factory workers check parts of engines on an assembly line at its plant in Yokohama, near Tokyo.

Nonprofit organization seeks Trump administration’s confidential auto tariff report

Sean Higgins · February 19, 2019 6:41 pm

This photo shows Clifford Goff, a bezel assembler, transferring a front end of a General Motors Chevrolet Cruze during assembly at Jamestown Industries, in Youngstown, Ohio on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.

Auto tariffs would cost up to 367,000 jobs, research group says

Sean Higgins · February 15, 2019 10:07 pm

In this Aug. 2, 2017, photo, a Nissan Motor Co. factory worker checks an engine on an assembly line at its plant in Yokohama, near Tokyo. Aiming to get an edge on its rivals in an intensely competitive industry, Japanese automaker Nissan says itâs attempting to foster a corporate culture that will produce manufacturing innovations in leaps and bounds instead of steady incremental improvement. Its discussion of that effort is partly a swipe at bigger competitor Toyota Motor Corp. which for decades has favored the concept of âkaizenâ or fine tuning and bit-by-bit progress in auto manufacturing.

Trump administration expected to deliver auto tariff report Sunday

Sean Higgins · February 15, 2019 7:46 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. TrumpÂ prodded China to offer more at the bargaining table as the two countries prepared for their first major negotiation in more than two months in an effort to head off an all-out trade war.

Beltway Confidential

The government shutdown is the perfect time to reconsider Trump’s trade war

Kevin Glass · January 23, 2019 5:02 pm

FILE - This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states. But not a single Republican attorney general has sued _ not even from states with large immigrant populations.

Trump administration to ask Supreme Court to take up census case, bypassing appeals court

Melissa Quinn · January 22, 2019 9:43 pm

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Cybersecurity feels shutdown pinch

Charlie Mitchell · January 18, 2019 5:00 am

Geoff Bettencourt, owner of the fishing boat Moriah Lee, demonstrates how he sets up a black cod trap in his yard in Half Moon Bay, Calif.

Commercial fishermen stand to lose billions from government shutdown

John Siciliano · January 16, 2019 12:07 am