Yesterday, President-Elect Trump announced Jamieson Greer as his nominee for U.S. Trade Representative. Greer served as Chief of Staff for Trump's previous U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during Trump's first term, and is likely to continue the tough China trade policies of that period.

Last week, two long-time Washington, DC trade lawyers who worked in the first Trump administration commented on the prospects for proposed legislation that would withdraw Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status for China.

As former President Trump gets closer to his return to the Oval Office, speculation has grown about his proposed 60% tariffs on Chinese imports. Simultaneously, momentum is building in Congress to revoke China's Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status. These parallel developments could potentially trigger a new round

Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has introduced the Restoring Trade Fairness Act, a bill that would revoke China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR).

With a number of U.S. legislative proposals being offered in recent years to revoke China's Permanent Normal Trade Relations status, a group of economists has tried to evaluate the economic impact of such an action.

At a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today, a panel on "U.S. Trade Strategy to Address China’s Nonmarket Practices" examined the issue of whether the U.S. should withdraw Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) for China and also discussed whether

New legislation introduced by a group of conservative House Republicans would get tougher on China in a number of areas, including trade and investment.