{"id":615624,"date":"2021-08-06T12:05:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=615624"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:05:30","slug":"dozens-of-business-groups-urge-biden-to-end-tariffs-on-chinese-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-of-business-groups-urge-biden-to-end-tariffs-on-chinese-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Of Business Groups Urge Biden To End Tariffs On Chinese Imports"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdozens-of-business-groups-urge-biden-to-end-tariffs-on-chinese-imports%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=615624&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--><p>A coalition of more than 30 key business and industry groups urged the Biden administration to reverse tariffs placed on Chinese imports by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The groups led by the Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable argued that the tariffs are an impediment to U.S. economic growth and hurt American consumers, according to the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/business-groups-call-on-biden-to-restart-trade-talks-with-china-11628212436?mod=mktw&amp;mod=article_inline&amp;adobe_mc=MCMID%3D06971701832883450021610816614393325185%7CMCORGID%3DCB68E4BA55144CAA0A4C98A5%2540AdobeOrg%7CTS%3D1628250355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obtained<\/a> by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday. They asked the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to begin negotiations with the Chinese government to resolve any difference between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA worker-centered trade agenda should account for the costs that U.S. and Chinese tariffs impose on Americans here and at home and remove tariffs that harm U.S. interests,\u201d the groups wrote in the letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and USTR head Katherine Tai, the WSJ reported.<\/p>\n<p>The tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/08\/23\/trump-retaliates-china-tariffs\/\">applied<\/a>&nbsp;by the former administration in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/22\/trumps-biggest-accomplishments-trade-china-usmca\/\">effort to boost American manufacturing<\/a>. The tariffs were kept after Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/01\/15\/donald-trump-phase-one-trade-agreement-china\/\">signed<\/a>&nbsp;the Phase One trade deal with China in January 2020 to ensure the conditions were met.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/12\/united-states-tariffs-china-imports-data\/\">(RELATED: US Tariffs Trigger Sharp Decline In Chinese Imports, Trade)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7254688\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7254688\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7254688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304054499-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai speaks during a Senate hearing on Feb. 25. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304054499-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304054499-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304054499-620x414-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304054499-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304054499-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1304054499-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7254688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai speaks during a Senate hearing on Feb. 25. (Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The business groups said China had successfully met \u201cimportant benchmarks and commitments\u201d outlined in the Phase One deal, according to the WSJ.&nbsp;The Chinese government has opened its nation\u2019s financial markets to American institutions and made it easier for U.S. agricultural firms to export to China, they explained.<\/p>\n<p>But China has failed to live up to its side of the agreement, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/22\/china-trade-agreement-united-states-goods\/\">according<\/a> to a Peterson Institute for International Economics report released in January. China purchased $100 billion worth of U.S. goods in 2020 compared to the $173.1 billion it promised as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to express our support for continued engagement with China on trade and economic issues,\u201d the groups wrote, according to the WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also recognize that fully resolving tariffs is unlikely, absent substantially more progress by China on core issues,\u201d the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>During his campaign, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/02\/biden-says-hell-keep-trumps-china-trade-deal-and-tariffs-at-least-for-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> that he wouldn\u2019t cut the Trump administration\u2019s tariffs nor renegotiate the Phase One Trade Deal.<\/p>\n<p>The National Retail Federation, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Semiconductor Industry Association were among the many groups that signed onto the letter Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of more than 30 key business and industry groups urged the Biden administration to reverse tariffs placed on Chinese imports by former President Donald Trump.The groups led by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}