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The hearings beginning Monday will end on June
25, the USTR said in a statement on Friday. That timeline means
Trump would not be able to trigger the fresh wave of tariffs
until after July 2, when a seven-day final rebuttal comment
period ends.
U.S.-China relations have deteriorated since Trump accused
Beijing in early May of reneging on commitments to change its
ways of doing business with the rest of the world.
Since then, Trump raised tariffs to 25% on $200 billion of
Chinese goods and ordered his trade representative to prepare
tariffs on another $300 billion, effectively covering almost all
Chinese exports to the United States.
Trump has said he wants to meet with Chinese President Xi
Jinping during June 28-29 G20 leaders summit in Japan, but
neither government has confirmed a meeting.
The proposed tariffs on another $300 billion are a further
"response to China’s unfair trade practices related to
technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation,"
USTR said in its statement Friday.
The tariffs will hit consumer goods hard, including cellphones,
laptop computers, toys, video game consoles, television sets,
clothing and footwear.
The list of more than 300 scheduled witnesses includes
representatives from retailer Best Buy, toy maker Hasbro Inc
vacuum cleaner maker iRobot, faucet maker Moen and other firms
and trade groups in a diverse range of industries.
(Reporting by Chris Prentice and David Lawder; Editing by Tom
Brown)
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