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Report Suggests U.S./EU Considering Steel/Aluminum Tariffs on China, Others
A report from yesterday indicates that the Biden administration is pressing the European Union to agree to a plan that would impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum, from China and elsewhere, if it has high carbon emissions and constitutes "non-market" production leading to overcapacity. Such a plan, which
U.S. Senate Hearing on Two Commerce Department Nominees Raises Various U.S.-China Trade Issues
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing
[https://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing-to-consider-the-nomination-of-lisa-w-wang-of-the-district-of-columbia-to-be-an-assistant-secretary-of-commerce-vice-jeffrey-kessler]
today on the nominations of two Commerce Department officials: Maria Louise Lago
as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and Lisa Wang as
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Enforcement and Compliance. The questions
from the
Kerry Meeting with Chinese Officials Discusses Climate Change Cooperation and U.S. Import Restrictions on Solar Products
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry was in China last week to meet with Chinese
officials on issues related to climate change, in advance of the November UN
climate conference. The meetings did not make much progress in this area,
however, and China took the opportunity to criticize U.S.
China Calls EU’s Carbon Border Tax Proposal WTO-Inconsistent
The European Commission recently proposed a package of legislative measures to
reduce the EU's carbon emissions by at least 55% by 2030, including a Carbon
Border Adjustment Mechanism
[https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/carbon_border_adjustment_mechanism_0.pdf]
(CBAM). This proposal has drawn criticism from Chinese