Grassley Says USTR Will Accommodate Auto Industry Concerns About USMCA
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, who last week said that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is not sympathetic to auto industry complaints about U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement implementation, said that after talking to Lighthizer again, he has a different view. Lawmakers recently asked the USTR to delay the USMCA rules of origin requirements (see 2004130035).
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Grassley, who was responding to a question from International Trade Today during an April 14 call with reporters, said: “Since I had a private conversation with him, I will not divulge the conversation itself but I sense that he’s got a pretty good understanding of some of the problems that we didn’t originally think he did, and he’s trying to accommodate those problems, particularly in the automobile industry.”