Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 26 - Trade

• Implement the United States Reciprocal Trade Act
• End China's developing-nation status in the WTO
• Strategically expand tariffs on all Chinese products
• Provide financial and tax incentives for companies to onshore production from China
• Stop China's abuse of the de minimis exemption for tariffs
• Prohibit Chinese state-owned enterprises from bidding on U.S. government contracts
• Ban Chinese-made drones in American airspace
• Ban Chinese social media apps like TikTok and WeChat
• Prohibit Chinese investment in high-technology industries
• Prohibit U.S. pension funds from investing in Chinese stocks
• Delist Chinese stocks that don't meet U.S. accounting standards
• Prohibit use of Hong Kong clearinghouses for American capital investing in mainland China
• Prohibit inclusion of Chinese sovereign bonds in U.S. investors' portfolios
• Reduce and eliminate U.S. dependence on Chinese supply chains in critical areas
• Sanction companies that facilitate China's Great Firewall
• Expand crackdown on counterfeit goods from China
• Close all Confucius Institutes in the U.S.
• Reduce or eliminate visas for Chinese students and researchers
• Implement tariff relief by ending Section 232, 201, and 301 tariffs
• Resist calls for more spending on trade adjustment assistance
• Remove supply chain restrictions
• Enact mutual recognition policies with allies
• Close the Export-Import Bank
• Repeal the Jones Act
• Restore the President's Trade Promotion Authority
• Restore the World Trade Organization's dispute resolution process
• Create a WTO successor open only to liberal democracies
• Rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Reorient the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity to focus only on trade issues
• Strengthen diplomatic pressure against Beijing's abuses
• Encourage cultural and intellectual engagement with the Chinese people