Tariffs Won’t Help Change China IP Practices, Say CTA, ITI, TIA, Many Others
The U.S. Trade Representative’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on Chinese goods over intellectual property issues and the Trump administration’s “escalating” threats to raise tariffs higher “will not effectively advance our shared goal” of changing China’s “harmful” trade practices “in a…
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durable, verifiable, and enforceable manner,” commented CTA, the Information Technology Industry Council, Telecommunications Industry Association and many others. “The proposed tariffs will be counterproductive and undermine” the administration’s efforts “to change China’s policies and practices” through face-to-face negotiations, the groups filed Friday in docket USTR-2018-0005. “Tariffs are taxes.” CTA said it “categorically opposes the imposition of tariffs on the products identified in USTR’s proposed list.”