WASHINGTON — A Senate Democrat called on President Joe Biden to repeal tariffs put in place by the Trump administration, saying they haven’t significantly changed China’s trade practices and are contributing to high prices for Americans.
Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia said Biden “can and must act now” and “pursue a broad range of solutions” to tackle U.S. inflation that’s running at a 40-year high. Biden said in June he was considering possible action on U.S. tariffs on China.
“The tariffs were neither well thought out nor well executed,” Kaine said in an op-ed in the Virginia-based Daily Press published online Saturday evening. “They didn’t significantly alter China’s unfair trade practices, and they are taking dollars out of Americans’ pockets.”
