China hits the US back with 34% rate for all products – National

China announced on Friday that from 10 April it will impose a rate of 34 percent on the import of all American products, part of a flurry of retaliation measures that follow The “Liberation Day” by US President Donald Trump with double digits rates.

The new rate corresponds to the speed of the American “reciprocal” rate of 34 percent ordered on Chinese export that Trump ordered this week.

The Ministry of Trade in Beijing also said in a message that it will impose more export controls on rare earths, which are materials used in high-tech products such as computer chips and batteries for electric vehicles.

Included in the list of minerals that are subject to checks was Samarium and the connections used in the production of space travel and the defense sector. Another element called Gadolinium is used in MRI scans.

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China’s customs administration said it had suspended the import of chicken from two American suppliers, mountaire Farms or Delaware and coastal processing. It said that Chinese customs had repeatedly detected furazolidone, a drug forbidden in China, in shipments of those companies.

Moreover, the Chinese government said that it has added 27 companies to lists of companies that are subject to trade sanctions or export controls.

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Among them, 16 are subject to a ban on the export of “Dual-Use” goods. High Point Aerotechnologies, a defense technology company, and Universal Logistics Holding, a listed transport and logistics company, belonged to the stated.

Beijing also announced that it has filed a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization on the problem of the rates.

“The imposition of the United States of the so-called” mutual rates “violates the WTO rules seriously, harms the legitimate rights and interests of WTO members and undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system and international and trade order,” said the Ministry of Commerce, “said the Ministry of Commerce.

“It is a typical unilateral bullying practice that endangers the stability of the global economic and trading order. China is strongly opposed to this,” said it.

In February, China announced a rate of 15 percent on the import of coal and liquid natural gas products from the US, it has added a rate of 10% on crude oil, agricultural machines and cars with large engine.

The latest rates apply to all products made in the US, according to a statement from the Tarief Committee of the Ministry of Finance.

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