China gets a back door into America because Mexico is part of a free-trade agreement with the United States and Canada. Depending on what components they use, Chinese companies based in Mexico cannot enjoy all the benefits of the trading bloc, whose rules dictate what percentage of a product must originate in North America. But, … Read More
Who: A Federal Circuit panel reversed an appeal’s court decision to prevent the federal government from expanding safeguard tariffs on solar equipment. Why: The panel determined former President Donald Trump had not violated the Trade Act by expanding solar safeguard tariffs in 2020. Read the article.
U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Bob Casey (D-PA) sent a letter to President Joe Biden sharing concerns about reductions in Section 301 tariffs, which are currently under interagency review by the Biden Administration. In the letter, the Senators cited the tariffs as an important means of combating anticompetitive behavior by China and other nonmarket … Read More
Citing losses over the past three years, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and nearly 200 manufacturers and industry partners – including the Lancaster Chamber, Greater Reading Chamber Alliance, Hershey Company, the Northeast PA Manufacturers & Employers Association – asked Congress to pass the legislation that expired in 2020. The previous Miscellaneous Tariff Bill (MTB) … Read More
“Ever since Biden was elected, the trade community had hoped for a reversal of the Trump-era trade tariffs,” said Ashley Craig, a D.C.-based international trade lawyer at Venable LLP, in an interview this week. But his prediction for 2024 is that “the president’s not going to substantially modify the current status on US-Sino trade relations … Read More
As typical, in this article, free traders distort the pro-tariff (protectionist) point of view to make their fatally flawed logic look more sane. The article says: “Economists know that international integration creates winners and losers. But we do not fully understand why the ‘losers’ so often set the policy agenda. This column argues that economists … Read More
The point is that if the U.S. steel companies are not profitable, they cannot afford to undertake such measures to reduce their carbon footprint. China will not reduce its greenhouse gases by one-third until 2030, so if we had allowed the U.S. steel industry to die and rely on China instead, climate goals would have … Read More
Canadian Solar Inc. is planning to open a manufacturing plant in Thailand after US regulators concluded the company was evading import tariffs on Chinese components. Canadian Solar is based in Guelph, Ontario, but most of its production is in Asia. It was one of five companies singled out by the US Commerce Department in August for … Read More
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers want the Biden administration to hike tariffs on Chinese-made vehicles and investigate ways to prevent Chinese companies from exporting to the United States from Mexico Alliance for Automotive Innovation CEO John Bozzella said in June proposed U.S. environmental regulations could let China gain “a stronger foothold in America’s electric … Read More
“This victory was made possible by corn growers across the country who spoke out against these duties as they faced skyrocketing fertilizer prices and product shortages at the behest of The Mosaic Company,” said NCGA President Harold Wolle. “While the best duty on fertilizers is no duty at all, we are nonetheless thrilled that corn … Read More
