Mike Elk at Campaign for America's Future takes the Washington Post to task for suggesting that the Obama Administration's decision to impose remedies on surging Chinese tires could imperil discussions on climate change.  Elk quotes the Post as saying that the new tire tariffs "might undercut U.S.-China climate talks and poison relations just two before the summit of the Group of 20 major economies." In fact, the President's decision to impose safeguard remedies is a perfect example of ENFORCING trade laws, not flouting them.  Similarly, talk of a possible border adjustment mechanism (which the WTO supports) in climate change legislation would help to hold China ACCOUNTABLE for its wanton polluting. Elk notes that environmental activists are rightly worried about China's poor environmental practices, and are unlikely to be distracted by other trade issues:

The Washington Post makes it sound like there is some huge army of environmental activists angry as all hell over the decision to enforce China-U.S. trade agreements by imposing tariffs on...imported tires. However, the Washington Post fails to cite a single environmental activist saying that this trade decision will hurt climate talks.

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