Category: International

Di Leo: Trade Fraud and the Manufacturing Community 

Trade fraud hit the headlines on Tuesday, July 14, when a joint press conference headed by the U.S. Department of Justice was held in the Chicago suburb of Bensenville, Illinois, announcing that the federal Trade Fraud Task Force has reached $1 billion in fines, penalties, judgments and additional tariff collections in the year since the task force was established – and it was a Chicago case that put them over the top. 

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Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Practices that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits

I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that underlying conditions, including a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, disparate tariff rates and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption, as indicated by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States.

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IL Congressman discusses tariffs with TMA

SCHAUMBURG – Illinois U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood visited online in February with TMA News Editor Fran Eaton and TMA Advocacy Team’s Rich Carter to discuss several issues of importance to the Association’s members. The topic that was most pertinent at the time was President Donald Trump’s propositions to resume the use of trade tariffs. 

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