Court Documents Show Christie’s Fighting Back Against US-China Trade War
Court Documents Show Christie’s Fighting Back Against US-China Trade War
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Court documents recently unearthed by ARTnews reveal that, in 2020, Christie’s filed a lawsuit against the United States government to dispute tariffs on imports that the house alleges were unlawfully imposed during the country’s trade war with China. Christie’s was far from the only company to do so; a few thousand other US-based businesses filed similar claims pushing back on the government’s authority to raise costs on trade with China.