Business Roundtable Calls for Tariff Rollbacks, Expedited Customs Clearance
Bold action from the administration to address the economic fallout of the COVID-19 response crisis is needed, the Business Roundtable said in a letter sent March 18 to the Trump administration. It asked for “immediate tariff relief through the duration…
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of the global pandemic," among other things. "Tariff relief can support the public health response as well as economic recovery. As an immediate step, the U.S. government should suspend tariffs on all medical and health products and other supplies necessary for the public health response to the COVID-19 outbreak.” It suggested that the administration work to ensure expedited customs clearance authorities, unspecified regulatory flexibility and, possibly, more money for transportation and port infrastructure. It criticized buy local provisions for goods needed for the epidemic, as well as export controls on those goods, saying they exacerbate scarcity problems.