Bloomberg President Donald Trump wants to move ahead with a plan to impose tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports as soon as a public-comment period concludes this week, according to six people familiar with the matter. Asked to confirm the plan in an interview with Bloomberg News in the Oval Office, Trump smiled and said it was “not totally ...

Bloomberg Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG wants to increase its operating margins by making production and other processes more efficient as it positions for possible further declines in US drug prices, its chairman said in an interview. Joerg Reinhardt told the newspaper NZZ am Sonntag that his company is taking steps to increase its operating profit margin towards 35 percent ...

Bloomberg The head of the World Trade Organization has responded to President Donald Trump’s threat to leave the institution by warning such a move would cause chaos for US companies operating around the world. In an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg, Trump warned that he would withdraw from the WTO “if they don’t shape up.” The president also called the ...