CTA to Testify Against Trump-Sought Tariffs on Chinese Goods Over IP Issues

The U.S. Trade Representative’s office accepted CTA’s request for Sage Chandler, vice president-international trade, to testify at the May 15 hearing in opposition to the Trump administration’s proposed 25 percent tariffs over intellectual property disputes on certain goods imported from China (see 1804050005), a CTA spokeswoman emailed us Thursday. “U.S. imports of products from China that are on the USTR proposed tariff list" include products members import, Chandler commented, posted Wednesday in docket USTR-2018-0005.