You don't know Robert Lighthizer but his influence with President Trump could change America's economy. Lighthizer was the top U.S. trade negotiator in the first Trump administration and he's an ...

Robert Lighthizer, who was the U.S. trade representative in President Trump's first administration, says China poses an existential threat to the United States that must be urgently addressed by ...

D onald Trump’s trade officials are run off their feet. China was just the beginning. Since the start of February, the ...

The biggest problem with Trump’s tariffs is not just the economic idiocy; threats of tariffs are likely to backfire ...

savvy seventy-seven-year-old Washington lawyer named Robert Lighthizer—an operator, in the deepest American sense—who spent the first Trump term serving as U.S. Trade Representative.

The administration of President Donald Trump continues to take shape, but several Cabinet positions remain open amid U.S.

One man has more insight into this policy and its ideas than most: Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, who served as U.S. Trade Representative in the first Trump administration and is considered the ...

Canada’s premiers visited Washington this week to make the case for open trade, but influential figures in the president’s ...

Economists say tariffs can increase prices for consumers, but Robert Lighthizer, President Trump's former trade chief, argues they're necessary.

The US has been the biggest beneficiary of global trade, especially in the services, high-tech, agriculture, and oil and gas ...