The approval for Ivanka Trump’s trademarks — which comes three months after she said her personal clothing brand was shutting down — occured “while her father President Donald Trump “continues to wage a trade war with China,” according to the public interest group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,
President Donald Trump’s daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump last month won initial approval from the Chinese government for 16 new trademarks, covering a wide range of products that include “voting machines.”
The approval for Ivanka Trump’s trademarks — which comes three months after she said her personal clothing brand was shutting down — occurred “while her father continues to wage a trade war with China,” noted the public interest group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which first reported the approval.
CREW said the approvals, which are only the latest in a series of approvals of trademarks by the Chinese, raises “ethics questions.”
“Since she has retained her foreign trademarks, the public will continue to have to ask whether President Trump has made foreign policy decisions in the interest of his and his family’s businesses,” CREW said in a post.
