After President Biden was sworn into office in January 2021, one of the things many in the political punditry predicted was that he would quickly remove tariffs that had been placed on around $350 billion worth of goods imported from China.
After all, Biden quickly put an end to a whole bunch of Trump-era policies. Why wouldn’t he also remove the tariffs?
Only that didn’t happen. Instead, the Biden administration quite rightly opted to keep the tariffs in place, and officials were clear about the reason: China’s government hadn’t actually done anything to deserve to have the tariffs removed.
