WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - China must provide more details about its new currency policy or U.S. lawmakers will press ahead with plans to raise trade barriers, a top U.S. lawmaker said on Saturday.
"This vague and limited statement of intentions is China's typical response to pressure," said Senator Charles Schumer, a member of the Democratic leadership who is leading an effort to allow the United States to use countervailing duties against countries with "fundamentally misaligned" exchange rates.
"Until there is more specific information about how quickly it will let its currency appreciate and by how much, we can have no good feeling that the Chinese will start playing by the rules," Schumer said in a statement.
(Reporting by Andy Sullivan; editing by Will Dunham)