Removing Trump-Era Tariffs Increases Reliance on China: Republican Lawmakers

Removing Trump-Era Tariffs Increases Reliance on China: Republican Lawmakers
Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 25, 2020. Tom Williams/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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President Joe Biden has mulled removing tariffs on Chinese goods to curb goods prices amid soaring inflation, which Republican lawmakers have pointed out would worsen U.S. dependence on China.

“There’s a lesson that we should have learned during the time of COVID, that we cannot be dependent on the communist Chinese government on our supply chain,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told NTD, an affiliate of Epoch TV.

Hannah Ng is a reporter covering U.S. and China news. She holds a master's degree in international and development economics from the University of Applied Science Berlin.
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