Shipping containers on the Matson Molokai cargo ship are seen at the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, on November 17, 2021. CNN Photo
According to the NY Times and CNN, Biden has rewarded the Chinese for taking care of Hunter. The decision announced last week reinstates 352 of the 549 eligible exemptions, keeping them in place through the end of 2022. They also rewarded the UK by removing the Steel and Aluminum tariffs.
Before the tariffs, 3.7 million American jobs from the U.S. economy from 2001 to 2018 had been eliminated. Joe Biden’s administration has eliminated United States tariffs on more than 350 products made in China, nearly all of which could be made in the U.S. or other countries friendly to us.
“Once again, multinational importers and their army of Washington lobbyists have protected their ability to import cheap Chinese goods over sourcing from American manufacturers,” Zach Mottl, chairman of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA), said in a statement:
We are disappointed that the Biden administration granted exclusions to the 301 tariffs on many Chinese products that have alternatives that are made or could be made right here in America, or are made outside of China. [Emphasis added]
As China supports and enables Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, we should be decoupling rather than providing their companies revenue from U.S. consumers. We will continue to fight against those in Congress who want to use taxpayer dollars to refund importers that profit off of cheap Chinese goods, as well as efforts to weaken the 301 tariffs despite China’s continued IP theft, rampant government subsidization, use of forced labor, and violation of the Phase One trade deal. [Emphasis added]