{"id":1828706,"date":"2023-01-30T10:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828706"},"modified":"2023-01-30T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T15:53:00","slug":"house-republicans-and-some-dems-look-to-reverse-bidens-tariff-waivers-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-and-some-dems-look-to-reverse-bidens-tariff-waivers-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans and Some Dems Look to Reverse Biden&#8217;s Tariff Waivers for China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-and-some-dems-look-to-reverse-bidens-tariff-waivers-for-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1828706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1241191294-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House Republicans and Democrats are looking to reverse President Joe Biden\u2019s tariff waivers for suspected Chinese companies that are reportedly funneling their solar panels through other countries to evade United States trade rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">In June 2022, Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2022\/06\/06\/biden-waives-tariffs-suspected-chinese-solar-panels\/\">Announcement<\/a>\u00a0a 24-month tariff moratorium on solar panel imports from\u00a0Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. Commerce Department officials believe that the panels were made in China by Chinese companies, but they have been routed through four countries in Southeast Asia to avoid tariffs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The tariff moratorium came even as Biden\u2019s Commerce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/02\/china-solar-companies-evading-us-tariffs\/\">Department found<\/a> that\u00a0BYD Hong Kong rerouted its production through Cambodia, Canadian Solar and Trina through Thailand, and Vina Solar through Vietnam to specifically evade U.S. tariffs on China-made solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>Already, about\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Jdec0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">80 percent<\/a>\u00a0of solar panels installed in the U.S. are made in China or by Chinese companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Last week, Rep.\u00a0Bill Posey (R-FL) and Dan Kildee (D-MI) \u2014 joined by Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Garret Graves (R-LA), Terri Sewell (D-AL), and Bob Latta (R-OH) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/posey.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=397084\">introduced<\/a> legislation that would reverse the tariff waivers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe Communist Party of China should not be allowed to circumvent our trade laws and undercut American manufacturing,\u201d Posey said in a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Our federal government should be getting behind American businesses and leading the effort to boost our competitiveness<\/strong> around the world, especially when it comes to our nation\u2019s energy independence. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The legislation would use the Congressional Review Act to allow lawmakers to rescind Biden\u2019s tariff moratorium which was finalized as a Commerce Department regulation in late 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot allow foreign solar manufacturers to violate trade law, especially when it comes at the expense of American workers and businesses,\u201d Kildee said. \u201cThe Biden administration found in its own investigation that China is evading U.S. tariffs on solar imports, but has paused action on this matter, which is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Stumo with the Coalition for a Prosperous America <a href=\"https:\/\/prosperousamerica.org\/cpa-applauds-bipartisan-legislation-to-repeal-biden-solar-emergency-declaration-that-allows-tariff-free-importation-of-subsidized-chinese-solar-to-continue-illegal-trade-activity\/\">praised<\/a> the legislation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This bipartisan legislation is <strong>an important win for the rule of law, American manufacturers, and the tens of thousands of workers<\/strong> that they employ \u2026 <strong>it is unconscionable that President Biden undermined the independent,<\/strong> judicial investigation by Commerce, which has already found preliminarily that the Chinese are illegally circumventing AD\/CVD duties. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden\u2019s solar panel tariff moratorium came after intense lobbying from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) which has\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/environment\/trade-group-driving-solar-controversy-includes-slave-labor-companies-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">been revealed<\/a>\u00a0to be representing Chinese solar companies, some of which are accused of using forced slave labor in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>From 2001 to 2018, U.S. free trade with China\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epi.org\/blog\/u-s-trade-deficit-hits-record-high-in-2020-biden-administration-must-prioritize-rebuilding-domestic-manufacturing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">eliminated<\/a>\u00a03.7 million\u00a0American jobs from the economy \u2014 2.8 million of which were lost in American manufacturing. During that same period, at least 50,000 American manufacturing plants closed down.<\/p>\n<p>Those massive job losses have coincided with a booming U.S.-China trade deficit. In 1985, before China entered the WTO, the U.S. trade deficit with China totaled $6 billion. In 2019, the U.S. trade deficit with China totaled more than $345 billion.<\/p>\n<p>While skyrocketing U.S. trade deficits have led to devastation across America\u2019s working and middle-class communities over the last two decades, tariffs would be a boon for reshoring jobs and boosting wages, studies show.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study from economists at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, for instance, finds that tariffs on nearly all foreign imports would create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/05\/study-u-s-tariffs-all-foreign-imports-create-10m-american-jobs\/\">about 10 million<\/a>\u00a0American jobs while boosting domestic output.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at\u00a0jbinder@breitbart.com.\u00a0Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans and Democrats are looking to reverse President Joe Biden\u2019s tariff waivers for suspected Chinese companies that are reportedly funneling their solar panels through other countries to evade United States trade rules. In June 2022, Biden\u00a0Announcement\u00a0a 24-month tariff moratorium on solar panel imports from\u00a0Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. 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