The government of China This Friday decided to raise up to 125 % duty Above all imported products from USAin response to the latest maneuvers of the Donald Trump administration in the escalation of his commercial war against the Asian nation.
The measure, which will enter into force tomorrow, April 12, leaves without effect the previous rise to 84 % approved previously by the Customs Tariff Committee of the State Council, which again condemned the US commercial policy through a statement that review The agency EFE.
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The authorities of the Asian giant accuse their American peers of “seriously violate the norms of international trade” and apply “a unilateral policy of harassment and coercion.”
In turn, they said that tariffs have already left the US products without a real market in China, so they consider that any additional increase will lack economic meaning, it will be “irrelevant” and “will end up becoming a mockery in the history of the world economy.”
The new movement arrives two days after China raised from 34 % to 84 % tariffs on US goods, in retaliation of 50 % tax that President Donald Trump previously imposed on Chinese products.
Clarifications from the White House
The Trump administration has declared a global trade war, and although it decreed a 90 -day moratorium for the application of tariffs defined for each country or region, it struck the confrontation with China carrying up to 125 % the tax at the products of that country.
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However, confusion reigned and the White House was in need of clarifying that these tariffs actually reached 145 %,
According to The Huff Postthe new figure is the result that to the 125% of tariffs imposed on China Another 20% that had entered into force, and linked to the scarce supposed steps taken by Beijing to stop the arrival of Fentanil and its precursors to US territory.
Although China is one of the main commercial partners of the United States, Trump has not forgiven his economic rival in terms of tariffs.
Last Wednesday, the US president announced a 90 -day break for reciprocal tariffs towards all other countries, with the exception of China.
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In his account in Truth Social then he said that “I hope in the near future” China “realizes that the time of cheating the US.
Before the threat of the US government, China responded on Wednesday with a new augmenteither to the products that the United States exports to that country, and said that “it will fight until the end.”
