BY JESSICA KWONG
First daughter Ivanka Trump’s company received approval from China to register three trademarks on the same day her father, Donald Trump, agreed to lift sanctions against ZTE, a Chinese telecommunications company.
China granted registration approval for the three Ivanka Trump Marks LLC trademarks on June 7, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) found in a review of trademark database records on Wednesday.
Trump saved the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE from financial collapse the same day by lifting tough American sanctions, despite opposition from some of his advisers and Republicans.
“The questionable part of this is, is there any significance to the timing of when she got registration?” CREW spokesman Jordan Libowitz told Newsweek on Wednesday.
“The questionable part of this is, is there any significance to the timing of when she got registration?” CREW spokesman Jordan Libowitz told Newsweek on Wednesday.
“You can’t say that there’s quid pro quo behavior, but the timing does raise questions that everything is happening around the same time.”
Ivanka Trump’s company, from which she stepped down upon becoming a senior White House adviser but has not fully divested, has received eight trademark approvals since May, Libowitz said. Besides the three trademarks approved on June 7—which were applied for in July 2016 and include rights to baby blankets, bath mats and textiles—other approvals from China occurred close to the date the president agreed to lift sanctions on ZTE.
“You can say that it is suspicious that all of the [approvals] happened around the same time,” Libowitz said.
NEW: We found that Ivanka Trump’s business received registration approval for three additional Chinese trademarks on June 7th, the same day that Trump agreed to lift sanctions against the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE. citizensforethics.org/ivanka-trumps-…
“You can say that it is suspicious that all of the [approvals] happened around the same time,” Libowitz said.
“It may be a coincidence, but if it is, it’s a coincidence that could have easily been avoided, and quite frankly, they should have avoided. Both Trump and Ivanka should have sold their assets when they got into the White House.”
The Senate plans to challenge Trump’s decision to lift sanctions with a measure in the annual defense bill that would essentially block the deal, The Washington Post reported earlier this month.
Ivanka Trump's business was granted preliminary approval for three trademarks last year the same day she had dinner with Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago.
The Associated Press cast a wider net in its analysis of her trademark approvals in late May, reporting that she had been granted 13 within the previous three months.
Ivanka Trump's business was granted preliminary approval for three trademarks last year the same day she had dinner with Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago.
The Associated Press cast a wider net in its analysis of her trademark approvals in late May, reporting that she had been granted 13 within the previous three months.
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