Beijing (AP)-China announced on Friday that it will impose a 34 % tariff on imports of all American products that start on April 10, which is part of a set of reprisals that follow the “Liberation Day” list of US President Donald Trump.
The new customs tariffs are identical to the “mutual” tariff rate in the United States by 34 % on Chinese exports that Trump requested this week.
In notice, the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing said that it will impose more export controls on the rare ground, which are materials used in high -tech products such as computer chips and electric car batteries.
It included in the list of metals subject to controls, which are Samarium and its compounds, which are used in the manufacture of space and the defense sector. Another element called Gadolinium is used in MRI scanning.
The Chinese customs administration said it had suspended chicken imports of American suppliers, Mountier farms in Delaware and coastal treatment. She said that Chinese customs have been repeatedly discovered Furazolidone, a prohibited drug in China, in shipments from those companies.
In addition, the Chinese government said it added 27 companies to the lists of companies subject to commercial sanctions or export controls.
Among them, 16 are undergoing the export of goods “double use”. Hight Point Aerotechnologies, the Defense Technology Company, and the Universal Logistics Holding, a transportation and logistical services company circulating for the public, was among those listed.
Beijing also announced that it had filed a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization on the issue of customs tariffs.
The Ministry of Commerce said: “The United States’s imposition of the so -called” mutual definitions “violates the rules of the World Trade Organization seriously, and seriously destroys the legitimate rights and interests of the members of the World Trade Organization, and seriously undermines the multilateral trading system based on the rules and the international economic and commercial system.”
She said, “It is a typical, typical practice that exposes the stability of the global economic and commercial system. China is strongly opposed.”
In February, China announced a 15 % tariff for imports of coal and liquefied natural gas products separately, adding a 10 % tariff to crude oil, agricultural machines and cars with large engines.
The latest definitions apply to all the products made in the United States, according to a statement issued by the State Council tariff committee of the Ministry of Finance.