China Strikes Back in US Trade War: The 128 Products It Wants to Tariff and Why
The package could be applied to more than 100 products, which Trump says were developed using trade secrets that China stole from USA companies or forced them to hand over in exchange for access to its massive market. Trump is scheduled to sign an executive memo issuing the instructions on Thursday in Washington.
"I have determined that the necessary and appropriate means to address the threat to the national security posed by imports from steel articles from these countries is to continue these discussions and to exempt steel articles imports from these countries from the tariff, at least at this time", according to Trump's proclamation released by the White House.
Maybe it will be the big one, the escalation that triggers an all-out trade war.
Chart showing dramatic trade imbalance between two countries since USA entered WTO.
In applying the steel and aluminum tariffs, Trump's main concern is that China has for years overproduced steel and aluminum, depressing prices globally and causing job losses in other countries, like the US but also in Europe. Lighthizer previously explained that the administration had devised an algorithm to choose which goods to tax to minimize the effect on USA consumers. The cause for today's measures is behavior that the U.S. Trade Representative has characterized as rampant, sustained theft of U.S. intellectual property by Chinese entities and the Chinese government. The ministry said it will try to work with Washington to reach a trade agreement. For ICT products, the percentage of non-Chinese value is much greater than half. "That process has failed". "It has been very expensive for America", said Navarro.
"The problem is that with the Chinese, in this case, talk is not cheap, it's been very, very expensive and finally the president decided we needed to move forward".
Before the tariffs become final, there will be a 30-day comment period, the White House said.
Trump then referred to China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the mushrooming trade deficit the USA suffered in the years since: "The tremendous money that we paid since the founding of the World Trade Organization, which has actually been a disaster for us, it's been very unfair to us, the arbitrations are very unfair, the judging has been very unfair, and knowingly we always have a minority and it's not fair".
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Meanwhile, on China's social media platform Weibo, one user wrote: "I am waiting for China's victory in this trade war and Trump being kicked out of the presidency".
Trump was due to unveil the sanctions later.
US frustration with China reached an inflection point in 2005, when then-Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick famously urged a country that at the time had economic growth of around 10 percent to become a "responsible stakeholder" in the world economy.
China has taken strong measures to protect the legal rights and interests of both domestic and foreign owners of intellectual property, the ministry said. And will it trigger a trade war with China? "China can not appear subservient to the U.S". "Even so, the impact on China's GDP would still be just a fraction of a percent off the growth rate", Tom Orlik, chief Asia economist for Bloomberg Economics, wrote in a note.
Speaking to global business leaders at a development forum, Vice Premier Han Zheng appealed for cooperation to make economic globalization "beneficial for all". "We have plenty of measures to fight back, in areas of automobile imports, soybean, aircraft and chips".
Li said Beijing would "fully open" manufacturing, with "no mandatory requirement for technology transfers".
Washington will also pursue alleged breaches of intellectual property law by China through the World Trade Organisation, a body that has repeatedly drawn the ire of the administration but which could provide a resolution that avoids a trade war.
Bloomberg Economics estimates a global trade conflagration could wipe $470 billion off the world economy by 2020.
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