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Trump Hears Pleas to Add More Tariffs

Meanwhile, president of National Foreign Trade Council warns: “This can’t be a mechanism to start raising tariffs on everything. There’d be no end to it.”

By Mark Niquette | Updated on April 24, 2018

Prominent U.S. business lobbies are begging the Trump administration not to impose tariffs on Chinese imports, but some small manufacturers are pushing the other way: Trying to get more products on the proposed list.

Makers of steel wheels, safes, and other products want the U.S. to impose tariffs on goods by their Chinese competitors, which aren’t among the products targeted so far. They say the duties the U.S. imposed on steel and aluminum imports raised their costs but didn’t affect finished goods made in China and sold here—setting up a potentially damaging Catch-22.

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