Navarro meets with GOP House members to push new trade bill

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro met with a group of House Republicans on Thursday to aggressively lobby for a trade bill that would give the president greater authority to impose tariffs, asking lawmakers to ensure it is introduced before the State of the Union address in late January, Inside U.S. Trade has learned. A draft of the “United States Reciprocal Trade Act,” which was first reported by Bloomberg News earlier this week, would give the president the authority to...