Remove Cree, Dell, HPE Items From Tariffs List, House Republicans Ask USTR
House Republicans went to bat for constituent tech companies trying to fend off Trade Act Section 301 tariffs of 25 percent on imports from China over intellectual property disputes. Seven GOP members from Texas want U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer…
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to heed “requests” of Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to remove Chinese imports of hard disk drives and solid state drives, said a May 18 letter posted Friday in docket USTR-2018-0005. Ted Poe, Pete Sessions, Mac Thornberry, John Carter, Roger Williams, Lamar Smith and Bill Flores said the devices are “critical components, and major cost drivers” for the “cutting edge” servers and storage products Dell and HPE make in the U.S. Cree in the past decade invested $2.3 billion in R&D and capital expenditures in Durham, said Rep. George Holding, R-N.C., so tariffs on its LED imports from China would help non-U.S. rivals. The White House announced May 29 the USTR’s office will release its final tariffs list by Friday (see 1805290046).