{"id":10233,"date":"2018-09-17T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T01:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2018-09-17T18:19:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T01:19:17","slug":"20180917-statement-from-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=10233","title":{"rendered":"20180917 Statement from the President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page-header page-header--small-title\">\n<div class=\"page-header__wrap\">\n<div class=\"meta meta--mobile-wrap\">\n<div class=\"meta__issue\">\n<p class=\"issue-flag\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"meta__date\"><span class=\"meta__label\">Issued on:<\/span> <time>September 17, 2018<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page-content\">\n<div class=\"page-content__wrap\">\n<div class=\"page-content__content editor\">\n<aside class=\"editor__module editor__module--left editor__module--named editor__module-all\">\n<div class=\"sidebar-button\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Today, following seven weeks of public notice, hearings, and extensive opportunities for comment, I directed the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to proceed with placing additional tariffs on roughly $200 billion of imports from China.\u00a0 The tariffs will take effect on September 24, 2018, and be set at a level of 10 percent until the end of the year.\u00a0 On January 1, the tariffs will rise to 25 percent.\u00a0 Further, if China takes retaliatory action against our farmers or other industries, we will immediately pursue phase three, which is tariffs on approximately $267 billion of additional imports.<\/p>\n<p>We are taking this action today as a result of the Section 301 process that the USTR has been leading for more than 12 months.\u00a0 After a thorough study, the USTR concluded that China is engaged in numerous unfair policies and practices relating to United States technology and intellectual property \u2013 such as forcing United States companies to transfer technology to Chinese counterparts.\u00a0 These practices plainly constitute a grave threat to the long-term health and prosperity of the United States economy.<\/p>\n<p>For months, we have urged China to change these unfair practices, and give fair and reciprocal treatment to American companies.\u00a0 We have been very clear about the type of changes that need to be made, and we have given China every opportunity to treat us more fairly.\u00a0 But, so far, China has been unwilling to change its practices.\u00a0 To counter China\u2019s unfair practices, on June 15, I announced that the United States would impose tariffs of 25 percent on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports.\u00a0 China, however, still refuses to change its practices \u2013 and indeed recently imposed new tariffs in an effort to hurt the United States economy.<\/p>\n<p>As President, it is my duty to protect the interests of working men and women, farmers, ranchers, businesses, and our country itself.\u00a0 My Administration will not remain idle when those interests are under attack.<\/p>\n<p>China has had many opportunities to fully address our concerns.\u00a0 Once again, I urge China\u2019s leaders to take swift action to end their country\u2019s unfair trade practices.\u00a0 Hopefully, this trade situation will be resolved, in the end, by myself and President Xi of China, for whom I have great respect and affection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued on: September 17, 2018 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