Obama announces another trade complaint against China

President Obama speaks at Capital University, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, in Columbus, Ohio.

/ AP Photo/Tony Dejak

Updated: 9:58 a.m. ET

(CBS News) On the heels of Mitt Romney's recently-renewed attacks on President Obama for his stance on China, CBS News has confirmed that the president will announce a new trade complaint against the nation while campaigning in Ohio on Monday.

Mr. Obama will file the case with the World Trade Organization in Geneva, targeting China for alleged illegal subsidies of auto parts made for exports, which the administration argues undercuts American suppliers and encourages outsourcing.

According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which first reported the story, the administration will also request that the WTO will "begin a review that the United States hopes will end with an order for China to stop levying duties on autos and SUVs exported to China," reflecting a similar complaint the Obama administration filed in July. That complaint accused China of imposing illegal duties on over $3 billion worth of cars and sport utility vehicles, including Toledo-made Jeep Wranglers.

Questions about how the Obama administration is handling Chinese trade policies have become heavily politicized in recent months, as the Romney campaign continues to target Mr. Obama as unwilling or unable to stand up to China.

Mr. Obama, meanwhile, has twice announced the plans for his trade complaints in the crucial battleground state of Ohio, which is one of the nation's top five states in auto and auto parts manufacturing employment, according to a U.S. Trade Representative fact sheet. On Monday, Mr. Obama makes appearances at campaign rallies in Cincinnati and Columbus. In July, he unveiled the complaint in Toledo.

Despite his critiques that Mr. Obama has not taken a hard enough line with China, Romney on Monday attacked the president's latest action as "too little, to late."

"President Obama has spent 43 months failing to confront China's unfair trade practices. Campaign-season trade cases may sound good on the stump, but it is too little, too late for American businesses and middle-class families," said Romney in a statement. "President Obama's credibility on this issue has long since vanished. I will not wait until the last months of my presidency to stand up to China, or do so only when votes are at stake. From Day One, I will pursue a comprehensive strategy to confront China's unfair trade practices and ensure a level playing field where our businesses can compete and win."

[jefforsythe]

The only time anyone writes about the brutal Chinese Communist Party these days is when it is about finance. Not a peep about human rights violations
It was not that long ago that Chinese people, in their own homes, would not have dared to criticize the brutal Chinese Communist Party and nowadays the cruel CCP is being cursed openly by all. Hopefully, it will not be long before the CCP dissolves and all the people responsible for the millions of atrocities committed by the Party will have to stand trial for their deeds.
The CCP has murdered eighty million of its own people since 1949 and since 1999 has been attempting the heinous genocide of tens of million of innocent Falun Gong practitioners through the use of torture, slavery, organ harvesting and murder. Western governments and media have kept this brutality from their people because of corporate greed, shameful.
This is just my understanding, thank you for your consideration.

[parisdakar]

Obama has a spine now? Oh that's right, it's an election year.

[tsigili]

He announces ONE complaint, and immediately politicizes it for his campaign.

What an incredible FRAUD!

[sjc_1]

but it is too little, too late for American businesses and middle-class families..

Bain got in there early with a bunch of buy outs, debt loading and off shoring. They made sure the middle class got shafted right up front.

[walkthetalk]

As bad as i hated seeing our jobs outscourced China, it was far worse watching or technology go to Chinese.

[bbglow]

... exactly.

[bbglow]

And, the economic problem is not China, the problem is American companies exporting employment and then importing the resulting products back to US for sale on American soil.

Check the arithmetic ... it doesn't add up. No jobs does not equal income to purchase products manufactured abroad ... duh!

[walkthetalk]

If you can't clean up the landfill, just add to it. Maybe no one will notice.

[ballwyllo]

Aha finally a solution comes to mind...conduct an election every couple months and Obama springs to action. Since I don't think the country will fire Obama, maybe this will work too.

[bbglow]

The problem is not China, the problem is American companies exporting employment and then importing the resulting products back to US for sale on American soil.

Check the arithmetic ... it doesn't add up. No jobs does not equal income to purchase products manufactured abroad ... duh!

[Reality-is-Good]

Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to Action is a non-fiction book by economics professor Peter Navarro and Greg Autry that chronicles, "From currency manipulation and abusive trade policies, to slave labor and deadly consumer products",[ the alleged threats to global economic stability and world peace posed by China's "corrupt and ruthless" governing Communist Party.

The book has been translated into Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean. A feature length documentary film based on the book and also titled Death by China is under production.

[bbglow]

"The elite have been enriching themselves at the cost of the production sector and now the chicken has come home to roost."
-- Interview quote from new Egyptian leader --

[bbglow]

The quote was concerning the Egyptian economy ... beginning to sound familiar?

[bbglow]

The failure for America is the corporate war waged against the American worker.