The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said India will reduce tariffs on fresh, frozen, dried or processed blueberries and cranberries, and will reduce tariffs on frozen turkey and duck.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee's chairwoman and ranking member are asking Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to use money available in the Commodity Credit Corporation to "open access to markets," and to send U.S. grown crops as humanitarian aid.
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said India will officially end its tariffs on American apples and pulse crops this week as part of an agreement the two countries reached in June (see 2306230038). The tariffs were placed on certain U.S. goods in retaliation for the Trump administration’s Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs. “In removing these retaliatory tariffs, our apple growers can now accept orders from India and growers could be making shipments as early as this Fall,” Cantwell said in a Sept 5 statement. “With over a billion people, this is one of the world’s largest markets and represents a significant growth opportunity for Washington growers.”
President Joe Biden on Sept. 5 nominated Erik Woodhouse to lead the State Department's Office of Sanctions Coordination. Woodhouse currently serves as the deputy assistant secretary for counter threat finance and sanctions in the State Department's Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, where he oversees the Office of Sanctions Policy and Implementation. The Senate in 2022 confirmed James O’Brien to lead the sanctions coordination office, which had gone without a leader since President Donald Trump disbanded it in 2017 (see 2204150049). The White House declined to comment about whether O'Brien is still leading the office and directed all questions to the State Department. A State Department spokesperson didn't immediately comment.
China will allow imports of beef from Nicaragua that meet certain inspection and quarantine requirements, the country’s General Administration of Customs announced Sept. 1, according to an unofficial translation. The announcement came one day after the two countries signed a free trade deal that will reduce certain tariffs, and import and export restrictions on certain goods (see 2308310020).
U.S. rice exports to Costa Rica have “plummeted” following Costa Rica’s decision a year ago to reduce tariffs on rice from all origins, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service said in an Aug. 25 report. The agency said American rice exports to Costa Rica fell 98% through June since the tariff reduction, adding that as “tariffs on South American-origin rice fell to 5 percent in August 2022, purchases of U.S. rice all but stopped."
Analysts from the Tax Foundation and from the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that hiking tariffs on all imports by 10% would not boost domestic manufacturing, with CSIS's Bill Reinsch noting "you would be hard pressed to find an economist who thinks they make any sense."
The U.S. government must take a host of actions to slow down Chinese "techno-economic dominance," including preventing Chinese firms from being listed on U.S. stock markets and limiting investment into China, Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, said in an Aug. 28 post.
Researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies expect the U.S. will get "a taste of its own medicine” when China appeals its loss over Section 232 retaliatory tariffs at the World Trade Organization, adding that China likely won't have to drop the tariffs since there is no appellate body to take that appeal.
India's Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal told U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai that he will "find a solution that addresses both countries' concerns" when it comes to India's new import licensing regime for technology imports. The new system is supposed to go into effect Nov. 1; U.S. technology companies have said it will hurt their exports to India (see 2308170028).