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Playing to the Home Crowd: USTR Announces New Trade ?Policies?

By Stan

I’m not sure whether this will raise any eyebrows over here in Beijing. It’s possible, as several of the statements made are direct shots at China, but all in all, the new initiatives announced by the US Trade Rep yesterday in Pennsylvania (in steel country) are a lot more PR than they are substantive policy.

If I were not such a gentleman, I might go as far to say that the USTR/Obama Administration is just giving a political hand job to certain constituencies here. But that’s crude, so I would never say it.

Let’s take a look at some of the details.

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