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Lighthizer asks ITC to assess elimination of ag, other duties on NAFTA-country imports

May 19, 2017 at 2:08 PM
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has asked the International Trade Commission to assess how providing duty-free treatment to certain products imported from Canada and Mexico might affect the U.S. economy and key industries. In a May 18 letter to ITC Chair Rhonda Schmidtlein, Lighthizer requested “a report containing its advice as to the probable economic effect of providing duty-free treatment for imports of currently dutiable products from Canada and Mexico on (i) industries in the United States producing like or...


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