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US to restrict tire imports from China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-09-12 11:57 WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has decided to impose punitive tariffs on all car and light truck tires from China for three years, the White House announced on Friday.
The US Steelworkers union, which represents workers at major US tire manufacturers, filed a petition against China earlier this year for import relief and won a favorable ruling from the US International Trade Commission (ITC). The panel recommended Obama impose a 55-percent tariff on the Chinese tire imports which would be reduced to 45 percent in the second year and 35 percent in the third before being removed. Obama, who must make a decision on the tire case before Sept. 17, at last set punitive tariffs at 35 percent for the first year,30 percent in the second and 25 percent in the third, according to the White House. The tariffs were strongly opposed by US tire distributors and retailers, who said the restrictions would raise prices, hurting cash-strapped consumers. "Tariffs will not create manufacturing jobs in the United States," said Jim Mayfield, president of Del-Nat Tire Corp., which sells private-label tires, including Chinese-made imports. He said for the past 15 years, major US producers had focused on higher profit and better performing tires instead of what industry insiders call "tier three tires" that service lower end and second-hand automobiles. With tariffs imposed, the biggest hit would be felt by American consumers who buy 50-dollar Chinese-made tires and can't afford US brands that cost upwards of 150 dollars, warned many distributors. Some low-income consumers are stretching their tires well beyond their useful life, coming in "with duct wrapped around the tire" to cover fraying steel belts, said Mayfield. The Chinese government also spoke strongly against the proposed tariffs. "We hope the US government will refrain from taking action, for the long-term healthy and stable development of US-Chinese relations," Fu Ziying, China's vice commerce minister, said last month. "The case is neither supported by facts nor does it have valid legal grounds," he added. This tire case is seen as a test for Obama's trade policy. "This is the administration's first real test on trade policy ... they're either going to implement new barriers or not," said Chad P. Brown, an economics professor at Brandeis University. The protectionist move by the Obama administration will ultimately hurt the US-China trade relations, which are becoming more and more important due to the global financial crisis, some economists warned. "There is rising protectionism in the US against Chinese goods," said Derek Scissors, a research fellow at the Heritage foundation's Asian Studies Center, noting that the harm will be inevitably passed on to consumers. "The US must stop taking decisions against China, even small ones, without putting forth an explicit trade policy, which we have thus far failed to do," he told Xinhua.
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