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Analysts to ITC: Censorship in China, beyond poses threat to U.S. companies

July 2, 2021 at 5:44 PM
China’s increasingly restrictive -- and sometimes capricious -- censorship regime poses significant challenges to U.S. companies and threatens to become a model for other countries, analysts told the U.S. International Trade Commission on Thursday, as the agency grapples with how to define censorship and measure its economic effects on U.S. businesses. The ITC in January launched an investigation into censorship as a nontariff trade barrier under Section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930, at the behest of then-Senate Finance...


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