USTR says Section 301 trade investigation results due in coming weeks

WASHINGTON — U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer said Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will release results of its trade investigations into dozens of trading partners, including South Korea, China and Japan, "over the next few weeks." Greer made the remarks in a CNBC interview, as the investigations have been in progress under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act to uncover "unfair" trade practices related to "structural" excess capacity and production, and to determine whether the countries have taken steps to ban imports produced with forced labor. The investigations could result in new tariffs or other trade measures. "What we're doing now is we have investigations ongoing in my office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and we're investigating specific unfair trading practices by different countries, and we're covering a lot of countries over 70 countries," he said. "So you will see over the next few weeks, we'll be releasing reports on our findings, and if we find unfair trading practices, structural excess capacity, forced labor, things like this,

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