USTR to Testify Next Week Before House Ways and Means on US-China Trade

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will be the only witness giving oral testimony at a hearing Feb. 27 before the House Ways and Means Committee on U.S.-China trade tensions, the committee announced Wednesday. Written comments can be submitted for the hearing record by March 13, the committee said. Ways and Means is one of three committees Lighthizer must report to by mid-March on his progress in creating an exclusion process for the third tranche of Section 301 tariffs on Chinese imports under the newly enacted spending bill that averted a renewed government shutdown (see 1902170001). The hearing is at 10 a.m. in 1100 Longworth.