The chair of a high-profile US House committee asked the US trade representative to apply tariffs to all semiconductors made in China and liaise with US allies like Japan and South Korea, even as US President Donald Trump threatens to impose levies on many of those trusted partners.
Testifying at a hearing hosted by the Office of the US Trade Representative, John Moolenaar of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said the USTR should “ensure that specific tariffs apply to any chip fabricated in the PRC and integrated into a final product entering the US”.
Moolenaar urged the US to “work closely” with allies and partners like Japan, South Korea, the European Union and Taiwan to “prevent China from dumping subsidised chips on the global market”.
The Michigan Republican’s recommendations came as Trump threatens “reciprocal tariffs” on all American trade partners. The US president has separately said he might order 25 per cent levies on EU imports as well as duties on Taiwanese semiconductors.
Since taking office, Trump has adopted a stop-and-start approach to tariffs on allies, using the threat of duties to extract concessions on issues like border security.
So far, he has imposed 25 per cent tariffs on wide swathes of Canadian and Mexican goods, prompting surges of nationalism in both countries.
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