South Korea's top trade negotiators met with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, with both sides reaffirming their intention to reach a tariff deal.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Thursday that TikTok will have to stop operating in the United States if China does not approve a deal for the sale of the Chinese-owned short video app that is used by some 170 million Americans.

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on July 24 that if China does not accept a deal from the U.S. to sell the app, TikTok will go dark again.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Federal Reserve should lower interest rates and that Fed Chair Jerome Powell "has got to go."

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick revealed the unique and historic nature of the recently secured U.S.-Japan trade deal he helped negotiate during a Daily Caller Live event Thursday.

Lutnick and President Donald Trump speak on the phone most nights, at around one in the morning, just after Lutnick gets in bed,” New Yorker magazine writer Antonia Hitchens said.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned Thursday that TikTok will go dark unless China agrees to a deal in which American owners take control of the popular social media app and its algorithm.

The commerce secretary said President Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs would drive as much as 1.5 percent gross domestic product growth.

LUTNICK: "We don't make generic pharmaceuticals. They are all made primarily in China. Think about that for a second--our antibiotics are made in China?!" This clip is from Daily Caller Live: American Jobs,