Comments to USTR Regarding Section 301 Investigations of Certain Economies’ Structural Excess Capacity and Production in Manufacturing Sectors (opens in new tab)

This Section 301 investigation rightly focuses on structural excess capacity. But its scope encompasses 16 economies rather than narrowly addressing the core cause of global trade upheaval—China’s mercantilism—thereby risking dilution of the blame for the country responsible for causing the need to recalibrate the global system.