Domestic manufacturers are calling on the Commerce Department to initiate antidumping and countervailing probes into imports of solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, the latest step in a years-long effort by U.S. producers to counter what they say are unfairly traded imports by Chinese-owned and headquartered companies.
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Chinese officials have acknowledged concerns voiced by the U.S. and others about overcapacity in green technology industries, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said this week, though Chinese government officials contend the world needs China’s production to fuel a more climate-friendly economy.
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The European Union at the World Trade Organization this week “sharply” criticized a U.S. countervailing duty investigation into imports of an industrial chemical from Germany, arguing it improperly targets the bloc’s Emissions Trading System.
The U.S. will be watching “with interest” the European Union’s newly launched investigation into Chinese procurement practices for medical devices, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Wednesday, calling the bloc’s new procurement instrument a tool that has the potential to help tackle “unfair” Chinese policies.
China is buying fewer agricultural products from the U.S. this year in part because Beijing wants to send a “signal” to the U.S., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said, suggesting the U.S. agriculture trade deficit is in part attributable to the drop in Chinese purchases.
A proposal put forward by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to impose a new tariff on all goods entering the U.S. would hurt the agriculture sector, a senior Office of U.S. Trade Representative official said last week, arguing that Republicans’ recent focus on the agricultural trade deficit overlooks the “real threats” to American agriculture.
Legislation restricting data brokers’ transactions with designated “foreign adversaries” has been folded into a “sidecar” measure as part of a House package of emergency foreign aid bills, which contains assistance for Israel, Ukraine and the Indo-Pacific, including Taiwan, according to an April 19 report by Inside AI Policy.
House Ways & Means trade subcommittee ranking member Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) will continue working with senators and the Biden administration to push for his proposal to prevent Chinese shipments from receiving de minimis treatment after Ways & Means Republicans this week advanced alternative legislation he says is insufficient.
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