Trump budget request calls for $40M ITA cut, increase in enforcement jobs

摘要

President Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget request proposes reducing funding for the International Trade Administration by more than $40 million while adding personnel to the Commerce Department agency to establish a team focused on self-initiating trade remedy cases. The administration's budget proposal recommends that ITA receive $442.5 million in funding, which is $40.5 million less than the $483 million Congress appropriated for the agency last month for FY2017. The proposed reductions would come by reducing ITA's overall workforce by 135 full-time-equivalent positions.