Toomey calls on USTR to exempt 13 Pennsylvania companies from China tariffs

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) is pressing the Trump administration to exempt 13 companies in his state from tariffs on Chinese goods. “There is no doubt China aggressively uses economic policy and its military to strike a dominating position Asia and the rest of the world,” Toomey wrote in an Oct. 10 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on behalf of one of the companies, FLSmidth Inc. “As the section 301 investigation found, China pursues global strength in part by...