“Without the tariffs, we wouldn’t be talking,” he said in an interview. Robert Lighthizer, the top American trade negotiator, was less sanguine. The two sides hope to reach an agreement by early March, before Mr. Trump plans to increase tariffs after a 90-day truce. ____________________________Today’s DealBook Briefing was written by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Stephen Grocer in New York, and Tiffany Hsu and Gregory Schmidt in Paris. ____________________________A reminder to Facebook and Google: Don’t mess with AppleFacebook’s 35,000 employees got a reminder this week of Apple’s power over their day-to-day routines.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2019 11:36 UTC