Protect Climate & Manufacturing Initiatives from WTO Trade Attacks

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

The Chinese government recently launched a formal trade attack against clean energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) within the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The IRA is the most-significant climate legislation ever passed in the United States, and plays an important role in reducing climate pollution and creating good-paying clean energy manufacturing jobs.

Please use this form sign onto official public comments we are submitting that urge the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to reject the WTO case at the IRA and to support a "Climate Peace Clause" in order to prevent future trade attacks on climate initiatives.
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Trade Justice Education Fund
Washington, DC

To: Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
From: [Your Name]

Re: Docket Number USTR-2024-0014; Dispute Number DS623

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on China’s trade dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) against clean energy provisions within the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The IRA's tax incentives are designed to boost the production of electric vehicles, long-storage batteries and renewable energy. As such, the IRA is an important tool for reducing climate pollution and for spurring the creation of good-paying, clean energy manufacturing jobs. We strongly oppose the use of corporate-driven trade rules to attack this and other measures seeking to address the climate crisis.

We urge the Biden administration and future administrations to please continue implementing the IRA as intended without making the changes demanded at the WTO by the Chinese government. We also urge you to please actively seek a Climate Peace Clause with other nations that would place a moratorium on the use of trade and investment rules to attack climate and clean energy initiatives. Such a measure would allow governments worldwide to prioritize needed climate action without fear that outdated trade rules will subject them to potentially costly trade attacks such as this one.