Leaders Representing Domestic Producers and Labor Meet With Lighthizer, Ross
Leaders of an organization representing U.S. manufacturing, agriculture, and labor left meetings with top Trump administration trade officials last week feeling encouraged with their approach toward trade, including a focus on reducing the U.S. trade deficit and trade enforcement, Coalition…
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for a Prosperous America Chairman Dan DiMicco said in a statement (here). “Already we are seeing far more aggressive investigation and enforcement directed at unfair foreign trade practices in a break from past administrations’ reluctant enforcement efforts,” CPA CEO Michael Stumo said after meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. “We had deep discussions about currency manipulation and misalignment as well as the different problems America faces from the strategic trade nationalism of China, Japan, Germany and other counties.” DiMicco said that under the leadership of Lighthizer and Ross, the U.S. has a “chance” to craft a strategy to grow U.S. manufacturing and agriculture “rather than accept decline.”