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US lawmakers due to confirm Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
US lawmakers due to confirm Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
Economy
By AFP

The US Senate is expected to confirm Wall Street billionaire Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary Tuesday, a key step towards the rollout of President Donald Trump's "America First" trade policy with tariffs used as a broad negotiation tool. Already, the commerce secretary has a broad agenda to implement and negotiations with some of the United States' biggest trading partners to contend with.