Large bipartisan group of senators asks Trump administration for carve-outs to China tariffs

A bipartisan group of 30 senators has called on the Trump administration to allow carve-outs for businesses affected by the $200 billion in tariffs the administration has put on Chinese imports.

“American manufacturers should have access to a tariff exemption process so they can continue to source components and materials from China, particularly where this is no alternate supplier,” the senators wrote in a letter Friday to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. The signatories included Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., James Inhofe, R-Okla., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., among others.