China

“We shouldn't have to pay farmers to take the edge off of a trade war that shouldn't have been started in the first place,” Buttigieg said.

“China will have to take strong countermeasures to defend our national sovereignty, security and development interests if the U.S. insists on making the wrong decisions.”

The Outdoor Industry Association said September marked the first month ever that outdoor companies paid more than $1 billion in tariffs on imports from China.

The “Play by the Rules Act” would give the Commerce Department greater flexibility to review anti-circumvention petitions filed against non-market economies.

China accused the U.S. of using national security as an excuse for protectionism.

The top USDA trade official put the odds of a deal at “better than 50 percent.”

Ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China are hastening Beijing’s drive to technologically decouple from the U.S. amid fears that the Trump administration could cut off its supply of inputs to critical technologies, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says in its new annual report.

Products include flooring materials, pet leashes, silk fabrics, sinks, bicycle speedometers, folding chairs, drive shafts and more.

The U.S. could convince China to eliminate tariffs on U.S. agricultural goods if it revoked at least some of the tariffs it imposed in September on roughly $112 billion worth of Chinese goods, analysts say.