Trade war: US looking at lifting tariffs on Chinese goods, American officials say | South China Morning Post

Washington's trade office told US businesses on Tuesday that it had begun a statutory process that could ultimately end up removing tariffs on Chinese goods. The notification, part of a legal requirement to review the tariffs four years after they were first put into place, puts the burden on US businesses benefiting from those tariffs to speak out and say that they want the policy to continue, the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) said. "The office of the US Trade Representative is today commencing the statutory process required leading up to the four-year anniversaries of the tariff actions,"…