WTO rules Trump tariffs on Chinese goods illegal

By artappraiser on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 12:03am |

The World Trade Organization (WTO) said Tuesday that President Trump’s tariffs on more than $400 billion in Chinese goods violate international trade regulations.

In a Tuesday report, a panel of three WTO adjudicators ruled that the U.S. was unable to prove its tariffs on Chinese products were necessary to level the global trade playing field. The ruling does not obligate the U.S. to scrap the tariffs, but finds that the Trump administration “has not met its burden of demonstrating that the measures are provisionally justified.”

Starting in 2018, the Trump administration imposed tariffs [....]

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https://thehill.com/policy/finance/516501-wto-rules-trump-tariffs-on-chinese-goods-illegal