CAPITO, SHAHEEN URGE USTR TO INCLUDE AMERICAN HARDWOOD LUMBER IN U.S.-CHINA TRADE FRAMEWORK

CHARLESTON, W.Va., July 7 -- Sen. Shelley Moore Capito issued the following press release:

U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) led a bipartisan, bicameral group of U.S. Senators and Representatives, in a new letter urging United States Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer to explicitly include American hardwood lumber within the recently established U.S.-China Board of Trade. Representatives GT Thompson (R-Pa.-15) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.-03) led the letter in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"We write to urge the Administration to include American hardwood lumber in the framework for the newly formed U.S.-China Board of Trade and to ensure that any Chinese procurement commitments i...