USCBC in the News
09/06/2024
China’s macroeconomic problems emerged this year as the No. 2 concern among American companies with business in the country, coming in just behind problems arising from bilateral friction, according to a Washington-based trade association survey released on Friday. “Weak” domestic demand and “overcapacity” are constraining company profitability in the world’s second largest economy, the US-China Business Council said in a summary of its summer 2024 survey of companies, conducted in June and July.
09/06/2024
Washington's tougher trade rules regarding Beijing have damaged relationships between American and Chinese companies while China's economic slowdown has sapped business optimism, a new survey shows. The US-China Business Council said its members have been harmed by the years long bilateral tensions that prompted the White House to impose more export controls, tariffs and trade regulations on American business activity in China.
03/28/2024
The Wednesday meeting attendees, which also included leaders from major nonprofit organizations such as the National Committee on US-China Relations and US-China Business Council, applauded recent measures rolled out by Beijing aimed at further reform and opening up, and expressed support for efforts bolstering exchanges and communication, the foreign ministry statement said.
03/14/2022
“There’s the law of unintended consequences,” US-China Business Council President Craig Allen told Xinhua earlier this week,...
03/08/2022
“The administration has probably been watching the chances of congressional passage of an outbound investment review provision...
03/07/2022
For people in the US, a popular misconception is that American business expansion in China has led to fewer American jobs,...
03/02/2022
The report mainly covers a “litany of well-known issues” yet offers no solutions, said Douglas Barry, communications vice-...
03/02/2022
Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council (USCBC), urged Beijing and Washington to reestablish a formal mechanism...
03/02/2022
US consumers have benefited from lower prices, and US companies have profited immensely from access to China’s market. In a...
03/02/2022
In a 2021 survey of 107 US enterprises doing business in China, conducted by the US-China Business Council (USCBC), 95 percent...
02/23/2022
Rory Murphy is now VP of government affairs at the US-China Business Council. He previously was a lobbyist and attorney at...
02/22/2022
“We can’t leave China, because China represents in some industries up to 50 percent of global demand and we have intense, deep...
02/22/2022
Even though China is currently the US' third largest trader, exports from the US to China supports millions of jobs in the US,...
02/22/2022
"The trade war with China hurt the US economy and failed to achieve major policy goals outlined by the Trump administration,"...
02/16/2022
Candidates’ arguments about China’s malign impact on Missouri’s economy aren’t supported by the data. Missouri’s goods’ exports...
02/15/2022
Whatever these goals turn out to be, some feedback is already happening. As the US-China Business Council reports, both sides...
02/10/2022
Consider Washington's treatment of purchase commitments as a way of sidestepping its own responsibility to lift tariffs. For...
02/08/2022
According to the US-China Business Council, the main reason US lawmakers do not oppose tariffs is because of an anti-China mood...
02/08/2022
“I’m sure both sides are looking at various things they can do ratchet up pressure on the other,” said Doug Barry,...
02/08/2022
Trade ties between the world's two largest economies are likely to remain on back burner as China focuses on Winter Olympics...
02/04/2022
Consider the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which formalizes standards after discussions by technical...
02/04/2022
However, the latest data, as compiled by the Peterson Institute of International Economics, reveal Beijing is still well short...
Chinese ambassador, US business leaders vow to work for sound, stable China-US ties in Year of Tiger
02/01/2022
Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council, said that during the last year "we saw continued strong top-line...