Trade Deal Should ‘Hold China Accountable’ for Cheating, Says NAM CEO
The National Association of Manufacturers wants to see the Trump administration reach a trade agreement “to hold China accountable” for its allegedly unfair trade practices, said CEO Jay Timmons Wednesday in a speech at Lone Star College in Houston. “China…
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cheats -- plain and simple,” he said. “And it hurts us here in America. And the tariffs, on their products and on ours? Well, they hurt manufacturers, too.” China is the “most challenging market in the world,” but it also packs “big opportunities,” he said. A U.S.-China trade agreement “would not only fix those problems and set new rules -- it would be historic. We want it done, and that’s why we called for it more than a year ago.”