The U.S.’s review of tariffs on more than $300 billion in Chinese imports that’s required as the duties reach their four-year anniversary will likely take months, a top trade official said.
At the same time, that won’t prevent the Biden administration from taking other steps such as exclusions from duties in tandem with that analysis, U.S. Trade Representative General Counsel Greta Peisch said Wednesday at an event hosted by Georgetown University’s law school.
“We want to undertake a review as soon as we can,” she said, referring to the so-called review of necessity. “In part, it will be driven by the volume of responses that we are receiving — going through those, ensuring we have a really good process to consider them. Given that, it’s likely to be months, but again, we want to complete it as quickly as we can.”
