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Companies warn that consumers will not escape next wave of tariffs on China

August 20, 2018 at 7:10 PM
Wedding dresses and handbags, bikes and helmets, chemicals and semiconductors are among the products from China that U.S. companies want spared from Section 301 tariffs, industry representatives told the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative during the first day of hearings on a list of $200 billion worth of products to be hit with 25 percent duties. The hearing was similar to those USTR held when it was weighing tariffs on $50 billion worth of goods, which President Trump has...


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