The new pressure from Capitol Hill comes from a number of at-risk Democratic senators — particularly Sens. Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey and Tammy Baldwin.
The push from a group of Democratic lawmakers, including Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, is the strongest yet from lawmakers to influence the outcome of the president's multi-year review of the tariffs. | Francis Chung/POLITICO, are urging the Biden administration to raise tariffs on China, warning that any cuts to Trump-era duties could hurt U.S. workers — and, implicitly, give the former president an electoral attack line on Democrats.
Lawmakers on Wednesday added they want to ensure Biden does not give any ground to the Chinese government as his team finalizes the review. Even if the legislators aren’t focused on the election when formulating trade policy, Biden is. The White House’s recent trade rhetoric and actions are “all about the election,” one former Biden administration trade official told POLITICO last week. “Trade animated in 2016, animated in 2020, so it’s going to animate this election, too.”
The administration is not expected to offset those tariff increases with major reductions elsewhere, the people familiar with the discussions said. There had been a push previously to lower tariffs on a range of consumer goods, but the former administration officials said that momentum for that idea has slowed in recent months as the election nears.
Some aspects of the tariff decision — like higher duties on EVs and metals — are all but assured. Biden last month called for higher tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum in a Pittsburgh speech. Separately, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told federal lawmakers that the U.S. must take “decisive” action to protect American auto workers from a flood of cheap Chinese electric vehicles.
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