Moolenaar: “Tariffs on China Level the Playing Field for Americans”

Today, the Supreme Court announced its decision in legal challenges to the Trump administration’s use of emergency authorities to impose tariffs, striking down tariffs implemented under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

“China continues to engage in predatory trade practices that hurt American workers, hollow out our manufacturing base, and threaten our national security. Tariffs on China level the playing field for Americans, and President Trump has demonstrated, since his first administration, that tariffs are one of the few meaningful tools in the U.S. economic security toolkit for confronting China. That's why I led the first ever bipartisan effort to repeal China’s privileged trade status. Congress should quickly pass this legislation to put American workers first, rebuild our nation’s manufacturing capacity, and establish a consistent trade policy towards China,” said Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI). 

In January 2025, Moolenaar and Congressman Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the Restoring Trade Fairness Act to repeal permanent normal trade relations with China and implement tariffs of 35 to 100 percent depending on the whether or not a product is critical to national security.