Government funding bill would force Trump to create exclusion process for China tariffs

Published February 14, 2019 9:11pm ET



The Trump administration would be obligated to consider excluding more products from its China tariffs under a spending bill introduced early Thursday morning that is needed to avert a federal government shutdown.

The government funding bill would require the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, or USTR, to create a process for private businesses, trade groups, and others to formally request a product be excluded from the tariffs, something the Trump administration has previously resisted doing.

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