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Home » Global Trade Management » U.S. Takes First Step Towards Four-Year China Tariffs Review

U.S. Takes First Step Towards Four-Year China Tariffs Review

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May 4, 2022
Bloomberg

The Biden administration is taking the first step toward a review of tariffs on more than $300 billion in Chinese imports that’s required to keep them from starting to automatically expire in July.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is notifying representatives of domestic industries that benefit from the duties of their possible end at their four-year anniversary, and the opportunity to request that they remain, it said on Tuesday.

If a request for continuation is received by July 6, the USTR will keep the tariffs in place as it conducts a review to determine their need going forward, officials told reporters in a briefing. A review would include an opportunity for all interested persons to provide comments.

It’s very likely that a domestic industry benefiting from the tariffs will ask for them to remain in place, according to trade experts. The USTR is sending notice of the expiration to about 600 stakeholders, the officials said.

The evaluation is officially known as a “review of necessity,” relating to Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. President Donald Trump used that law to hit China with tariffs ranging from footwear and clothing to electronics and bicycles and even pet food starting in July 2018 after an investigation concluded that China stole intellectual property from American companies and forced them to transfer technology.

Earlier: How China Won Trump’s Trade War and Got Americans to Foot the Bill

Although the Trump White House instituted the tariffs in four different batches during 2018 and 2019, the review — if requested — will include all of them, administration officials said on a call with reporters.

While some businesses have benefited from the tariffs protecting them from Chinese import competition, others who use the Chinese imports as inputs in areas including manufacturing have been hurt by them. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have pushed the Biden administration to broaden and deepen the exclusion process for the tariffs and review past product denials.

Read more: Trade War Costs Global Supply Chains 3-5 Years of Growth, UN Says

The Biden administration in March announced plans to reinstate exemptions from the Trump era on about two-thirds of Chinese products that were previously granted waivers from tariffs, most of which expired by the end of 2020.

The main considerations in whether to reinstate the exclusions were whether a product or comparable product was available from sources in the U.S. or in third countries, and changes in the global supply chain since 2018. They also included efforts by importers or U.S. purchasers to source the product from the U.S. or third countries, and domestic U.S. capacity to produce the product.

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