Wendy Cutler
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened tariff hikes on the United States’ largest trading partners, but China seems to be in the most immediate line of fire as his inauguration approaches. Late last year, Trump announced plans to impose an additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports, citing Beijing’s inadequate efforts to curtail the fentanyl trade.
Trump has repeatedly argued that China has stolen U.S. jobs and industries and taken advantage of the United States, leading him to threaten increased tariffs of 60 percent or more on the campaign trail. The tariff proposals don’t stop there: There is growing interest within Congress to revoke China’s current “permanent normal trade telations” (PNTR) tariff status—a move supported by Trump’s nominee for U.S. trade representative, Jamieson Greer.
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