Began to pay Chinese retaliatory duties to imports from the US
China introduced duties of 84 percent.
Beijing. Chinese retaliation duties With a rate of 84 percent of US imports, they entered into force, AFP said on Thursday, which described this step as a new stage in the commercial war -distributed Washington and exciting concerns about the global recession.
US President Donald Trump Meanwhile, he announced an increase in duties on the import of Chinese goods to the US to 125 percent.
Trump suspended most of the duties for 90 days, China picked up even more, markets grow sharply Read
Trump’s duties paused, China picked up
New Chinese duties are applied to all American products entering the Chinese territory. Last year, the value of this import was $ 143.5 billion (€ 130.6 billion), AFP added, referring to the US Chamber of Commerce.
The Chinese Treasury announced on Wednesday that it will increase retaliatory duties to imports from the United States from 34 to 84 percent. This was a response to US President Donald Trump, who, after the previous retaliation, imposed an additional surcharge of 50 percent for Chinese imports, and thus increased the import from China to 104 percent.
Surprisingly, Trump, surprisingly, announced that, with the exception of China, the United States for 90 days, with immediate validity, reduced the majority of the customs rate to ten percent. For several hours, the so -called reciprocal duties, which are significantly higher, were in force.
Trump said he had suspended their effectiveness to create space for negotiations on duty with other countries. The pause does not concern China, on the contrary, the duties raised from 104 to 125 percent.
Superpower duel
The US President’s decision to suspend its global duties, but to increase China has transformed the global business war into a superpower’s battle, noted before AFP, adding that it is a question of how China will respond to Trump’s attacks that say Beijing « wants to agree but don’t know how to do it ».
The trade war between the two world’s largest economies shows no signs of slowing. Beijing promised to « fight to the end », and Washington also showed that he would not retreat, wrote the BBC News server, adding that in addition to the duties China also imposed limitations on more than a dozen US companies.
These measures, among other things, prohibit the entry of the executives of these companies to China or forbid them to invest in the country.
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