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Once again: Who pays for tariffs on Chinese steel?

by Henry Epp
Apr 17, 2024
As the Biden administration proposes tripling duties, experts recall how previous tariffs mainly hit American consumers and industries.
President Joe Biden speaks to members of the United Steel Workers Union in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, announcing plans to raise tariffs on Chinese steel.
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Americans bought fewer Chinese imports in 2023, but Chinese exporters aren't necessarily hurting

by Justin Ho
Feb 8, 2024
We bought more imports from Mexico — and Chinese companies have been investing heavily there.
U.S. imports from China. were down more than 20% in 2023 compared to the previous year.
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China could be on track to dominate the world's EV market, even if not in the U.S.

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Jan 2, 2024
Chinese automaker BYD, which sells both hybrids and pure EVs, likely surpassed Tesla’s total vehicle sales last year.
Although tariffs block Chinese-made EVs from being sold in the U.S., companies like BYD have a presence in Asia, South America and Europe.
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Biden's tariff choice: Cut them in hopes of easing inflation or keep them as leverage against China

by Lily Jamali
Jul 5, 2022
The Treasury secretary and the trade representative disagree on the issue.
President Biden could reportedly make a decision about rolling back tariffs on some Chinese goods as soon as this week. In his Cabinet, opinions on the issue differ.
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What has the U.S.-China trade war achieved?

by Jennifer Pak
Feb 25, 2022
The U.S. and China have been engaged in a trade war for nearly four years. What's the scorecard?
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Trade is still a mess, and that's keeping this customs broker busy

by Sean McHenry
Jul 30, 2021
Gretchen Blough, a customs broker at Logistics Plus in Erie, Pennsylvania, said that the ships, trucks, tariffs and supply shortages are peppering the shipping industry.
Containers stacked in the Port of Los Angeles on April 19, 2021.
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Biden holds line on China tariffs, for now

by Scott Tong
Mar 29, 2021
Keeping the trade levies in place is seen as a way the U.S. can maintain leverage with China on a range of issues.
Then-Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Beijing in 2013. Maintaining tariffs on China gives the U.S. bargaining leverage and supports Biden's effort to strengthen domestic supply chains.
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Rethinking the U.S.-China relationship under the Biden administration

by David Brancaccio , Daniel Shin and Alex Schroeder
Dec 15, 2020
Economist Dean Baker says the two should be sharing intellectual property in health care and climate technology, "not fighting over it."
Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaking in Beijing in 2013. As president, Biden will inherit a complicated relationship between the giant economies.
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U.S.-China long-term investment falls to 9-year low amid pandemic, protectionism

by Scott Tong
Sep 17, 2020
Chinese investment in the U.S. also fell because of the pandemic recession.
Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation's busiest container port, on Nov. 7, 2019 in San Pedro, California.
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Who's paying the tariffs on Chinese goods? A new report says it isn't the Chinese

by Mitchell Hartman
Nov 25, 2019
According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Americans are paying.
Chinese police officers watch a cargo ship at a port in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province in 2018.
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