<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/members-congress-call-trump-keep-promises-china-and-trade" class="">https://delauro.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/members-congress-call-trump-keep-promises-china-and-trade</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 38px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: rgb(10, 175, 129); padding: 0px 15px;">Members of Congress Call on Trump to Keep Promises on China and Trade</h1><div class="block-without-title block block-system block-main block-system-main odd" id="block-system-main" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 1em; border: medium none; color: rgb(38, 37, 37); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat;"><div class="block-inner clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="content clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="clearfix panel-display panel-1col" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="panel-col panel-panel" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 752px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" class=""><div class="panel-pane pane-node-created" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-right: 8px; display: inline;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">April 5, 2017 </div></div><div class="pane-token panel-pane pane-node-content-type" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">Press Release </div><div class="pane-entity-field panel-pane pane-node-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-label-hidden field-name-body field field-type-text-with-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 10px;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" class=""><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">WASHINGTON, DC (April 5, 2017) </strong>— <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)</strong> today <a href="https://delauro.house.gov/sites/delauro.house.gov/files/China-Trade-Letter-4-5-17.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 140, 193); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; -webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;" class="">led 90 Members of the House of Representatives in writing to President Trump</a>, demanding that he fix the failed policies on trade with China. Throughout his campaign and his first months in office, President Trump pledged to the American people that he would correct our China trade policy and declared that this was essential to delivering on two other promises—to reduce our massive trade deficit and to ‘bring back’ American manufacturing jobs. However, the President has yet to act on these critical issues.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" class="">“Throughout your campaign, you promised a get-tough-on-China trade policy and pledged to declare China a currency manipulator on your first day in office. You reiterated that pledge ‘to protect American workers’ in your ‘Contract with the American Voter,’ stating that on your first day in office: ‘I will direct my Secretary of the Treasury to label China a currency manipulator,’” <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">wrote the Members</strong>. “However, on February 23, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin explicitly stated that the Administration was not ready to make any such declaration. The same day, you told a group of manufacturing Chief Executive Officers visiting the White House that you would take strong action to combat China’s ‘$500 billion’ trade deficit with the United States. In addition, on February 24, you stated that China was the ‘grand champion’ at manipulating its currency.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" class="">The Members also called out President Trump for not indicating his plans with respect to the United States-China Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIT). The BIT would replicate key aspects of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), two agreements that President Trump castigated as damaging to American workers and the economy. Further, the BIT would include the investor protections found in NAFTA and the TPP that make it easier to offshore American jobs, and it would give Chinese firms, including state-owned enterprises, broader rights to purchase U.S. firms, land, and other assets. The BIT would make current China trade issues significantly worse.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" class="">The full letter is available <a href="https://delauro.house.gov/sites/delauro.house.gov/files/China-Trade-Letter-4-5-17.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 140, 193); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s; -webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out 0s;" class="">here</a>.</p><p align="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;" class="">###</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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