Any Serious Congressional China Legislation Should Include Section 232 Reform SHARE
According to various news reports, Congress is preparing a package of legislative updates to U.S. trade and economic policy in order to address China’s growing economic and geopolitical influence. The resulting “China Package” will, like the
Strategic Competition Act of 2021, be a bipartisan effort that includes a mix of diplomatic and strategic policies seeking to bolster U.S. companies’ competitiveness and rein in perceived Chinese abuse. One area ripe for reform – yet unfortunately missing thus far from congressional discussions – is Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, which authorizes the president to impose tariffs on “national security” grounds. As we explained in a recent paper, President Donald Trump routinely abused Section 232 to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum, and threatened them on several other products – abuse that the vague and poorly-concei
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Solar panels are once again in the news due to several recent
developments. Due to various trade remedy actions taken over
the course of the past few years, solar panels are 45% more
expensive in the United States than in Europe and Australia and 50%
more expensive in the United States than the global average. The
Solar Energies Industries Association (SEIA) believes tariffs are
largely responsible for the high price of solar panels in the
United States. The Congressional Research Service (CRS)
estimates that 98% of solar panels and their components are
The Harvard Law Record
We live in a post-constitutional universe.
We have been reversing course since the American Revolution when George Washington turned aside a crown in favor of a Republic and Thomas Paine preached in
Common Sense: “For so in absolute governments the King is the law, so in free countries the law ought to be king.”
The President of the United States is now crowned with vastly more unchecked power than the tyranny King George III exercised over our forefathers which provoked the American Revolution.
Our urgent task as citizens is to restore the Constitution by deliberative engagement against those who have mauled it by creating an American Empire driven by an extra-constitutional, lawless, imperial presidency.
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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly supports S. 746, the “Trade Security Act,” introduced by Senators Rob Portman and Dianne Feinstein. This bipartisan legislation would help restore the proper constitutional role of Congress in tariff policy by providing for Congressional disapproval of prospective tariffs designated under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
Members who cosponsor this legislation will receive credit for the Leadership component of their “How They Voted,” rating.
Prior application of Section 232 tariffs has inflicted substantial harm on U.S. workers and consumers in every state, raising costs for U.S. manufacturers and eliciting foreign retaliation that has depressed American industrial and agricultural exports. The imposition of these tariffs on many of America’s closest allies on the argument that their exports threaten U.S. national security has al