U.S. Offers Trade Relief for Help in Pressuring China, Source Says
- USTR lays out five conditions for countries seeking exclusion
- America also wants to impose steel, aluminum import quotas
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The Trump administration is pressing countries to ally with the U.S. in pushing back against Chinese trade policies in exchange for relief from American tariffs on steel and aluminum, according to a European official.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has been leading negotiations under which countries may be excluded from the tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum. American trading partners and U.S. companies are pressing for exemptions and exclusions from the tariffs, which take effect on Friday.