The 20% tariffs announced by the United States on Chinese exports on account of the fentanyl enter into force on Tuesday, while Beijing Sopesa an answer that could go through imposing taxes on agricultural and food products in the American country.
The tax, which was initially going to be 10%, will finally be the double as President Donald Trump announced last week, who justified the decision in his Chinese judgment does not do enough to avoid the entry of fentanyl into the US.
This is the same reason wielded weeks before when he announced the imposition of the initial 10%, which in turn joined the rates imposed by the Republican during his first mandate and that remain in force.
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China, which among other terms has described the Washington movement as “blackmail”, has not yet responded with specific measures to the last batch of tariffs, but the first one, which reacted by taxing between 10% and 15% certain US products, in addition to establishing new controls to key mineral exports and opening an investigation against the American technological giant Google.
Now, the reprisals of the Asian giant could point to the agricultural and food exports of the US, according to the state newspaper Global Times.
“If the United States persists in applying unilateral tariffs and formalizes these measures, China will respond with firm and forceful countermeasures” that would include tariff and non -tariff measures, with US agricultural and food products among the main objectives, an unidentified source advanced to the newspaper.
The Asian country is the main market for those American sectors, although in the last two years its exports to China have experienced declines of up to 20%.
In the absence that Beijing officially confirms these countermeasures, their Ministries of Commerce, Foreign and Public Security replicated on Friday with speeches identical to Trump’s announcement: “Unilateral tariffs violate the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and undermine the multilateral trade system.”
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The three portfolios defended the rigor in China’s anti -drug control and bilateral cooperation developed so far in this matter with the US, which is the one who has “the problem”, according to China.
A spokesman from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce warned on Tuesday that he will adopt “countermeasures” before the new tariffs.
“China is strongly unsatisfied with that and firmly opposes, and will take countermeasures to decide their own rights and interests,” he said in a statement.
In his first presidency, Trump has already maintained a tense relationship with Beijing by imposing several rounds of tariffs worth about 370,000 million dollars annually, to which China responded with taxes to US exports.
With EFE information
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