Peter Navarro; the economist shaping Trump's economic thinking
by Edward Helmore in New York from on (#3HWHX)
The White House's metals tariffs plan has numerous casualties, the big winner is the man in charge of trade and manufacturing
Donald Trump's threatened trade tariffs have claimed many victims: international trade, domestic steel consumers and Trump's dissenting economic adviser Gary Cohn. But so far there has been one big winner - Peter Navarro, director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.
Navarro was a key architect of Trump's "America First" policy of economic nationalism and a tireless critic of China's economic policies - one of his books is decorated with a map of America being stabbed in the heart with a knife marked Made in China.
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