He Chinese government has assured this Thursday that “He will ignore” what he has described as “tariff numbers” of Donald Trump’s administrationin response to the statements expressed on the eve by the White House warning that the Asian giant can face “A tariff up to 245%” as a result of the reprisals implemented in the commercial war between the two superpowers.
“If the United States continues to play the game of tariff figures, China will ignore it. If the United States insists on continuing to substantially violate the rights and interests of China, China will have resolutely and fight until the end“said the Chinese Foreign Ministry in a statement in which she has assured that “China does not want to fight against one, but he is not afraid either“.
Thus, the Chinese diplomatic portfolio recalled that “the repeated imposition of abnormally high tariffs to China by the United States has become a numbers that do not have practical economic importance“, after pointing out that” he has “taken” from the announcement of the US government about the 245% tax at its products.
“This alone The United States’s tactics will be further exposed to instrumentalize and use tariffs such as weapons and exercising intimidation and coercion“He added.
Previously, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry recalled that “This tariff war was initiated by the United States”. “The necessary countermeasures that China adopts are intended to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests and international equity and justice,” he defended, qualifying the responses of the Asian country as “reasonable and legal.”
“If the United States really wants to solve the problem through dialogue and negotiation, it should Leave the extreme pressure approach, stop threatening and blackmailing and starting a dialogue with China on the basis of the equalityhe I respect and the mutual benefit“He concluded.
These statements come after the White House has warned that imports from merchandise from China can face “a tariff of up to 245%”, which would be consequence of adding the 125% reciprocal tariff as well as the tax of 20% to address the fentanyl crisisin addition to tariffs for specific products under section 301, which range between 7.5% and 100%.
This rule of the 1974 United States Commerce Law authorizes the US President to take all relevant measures, including tariff and non -tariff reprisals, to achieve the elimination of any act, politics or practice of a foreign government that violates an international commercial agreement or that is unjustified or discriminatory, hindering US trade.
On his side, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has indicated that PEkín “has observed that accumulated tariffs on some Chinese products exported to the United States have reached 245%”which exposes “irrationality” with which the United States has instrumentalized the use of tariffs.
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