Trump eyes trade-deal critic Ross for Commerce secretary

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"[Ross] has both of the requisite characteristics: he's a successful businessman and he's a mercantilist who wants to open foreign markets and close U.S. markets," said Dan Ikenson, director of trade policy studies at the free-market Cato Institute. "Through his discretion, he could make the U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws more accessible to U.S. petitioners, which is bad news for consumers and consuming industries. Other than that, he can't cause too much mischief as Commerce secretary."