Congress PASSES tariffs and duties law on Chinese imports, it sits on Obama's desk now!

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8. The administration sent the bill to congress so I'm sure Obama will sign it.

"The Obama administration helped craft the bipartisan bill after an appeals court ruled in December the U.S. Commerce Department did not have authority to impose countervailing - or anti-subsidy - duties on goods from "non-market economies"."

"Vice President Joe Biden praised Congress for taking "a clear stand against the unfair trade practices that have put countless American jobs in jeopardy." - I doubt if Biden would have publicly praised congress for passing the bill, if Obama planned on vetoing it.

"The decision endangered countervailing duties on about two dozen goods from China and Vietnam worth more than $4 billion in trade, as well as potential new duties in cases involving solar panels and wind turbine towers from China."

&quot T)he U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled the Bush administration should have obtained legislation from Congress to make the policy change because the previous practice of not applying countervailing duties to non-market economies had become embedded in U.S. law.

The bill addresses the double counting issue to make sure U.S. countervailing duties against non-market economies do not violate WTO rules, lawmakers said."

This new law reinstates existing countervailing and antidumping duties and tariffs giving the administration the legal authority to do what it was already doing before the December court decision. It's what Obama wanted so I'm sure he will sign it.