Commerce Secretary Defends Tariffs
- Posted on January 20, 2026
- By The Wall Street Journal
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Commerce Secretary Defends Tariffs
The U.S. commerce secretary said that President Trump’s tariffs had been good for global stock markets. “Everyone’s said, ‘You’re going to do all these tariffs, you’re going to destroy the world’,” Howard Lutnick told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The world’s stock
