Brady Calls for Return of Section 301 Exclusions, TPA Renewal
The administration needs to open up a fair, timely and transparent exclusions process for Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports, House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Kevin Brady said, but he doesn't know what the U.S. trade representative's timetable will be on deciding whether that will happen. He said he hopes it will be very soon. Brady, R-Texas, spoke to reporters on a conference call March 3. “One of the reasons I continue to push this administration to not simply follow through on compliance with the phase one agreement but to go further into phase two” is because once agreements are hammered out, he thinks, it will be time to begin to roll back those tariffs, he said.
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Brady also told reporters he would not support a renewal of the Trade Adjustment Assistance program on its own, arguing it should be paired with another trade bill. “The program itself needs significant reforms to produce for the workers it’s targeting,” he said. A renewal of trade promotion authority would be a good companion bill for TAA renewal, he said. “I think it’s important for every administration to have TPA,” Brady said, saying that he is pushing for its renewal.