Trump pledges creation of consolidated trade office

Donald Trump today pledged to consolidate “all trade policy making” into one office. The “American desk,” as he dubbed it, would be part of a “major reorganization of our bureaucracy,” the GOP nominee said at a campaign stop in Ohio. “American trade policy is currently mismanaged by dozens of competing bureaucracies spread across the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, State, Treasury, all of these departments, so many departments,” Trump said. The new American desk, he continued, would be under the...