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‘Protectionist bullying’: China denounces Trump administration’s latest tariff hikes

  • by Patty Hardy
  • in Business
  • — Aug 25, 2019
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If Trump goes ahead with all the tariffs he's announced, they would cover just about everything China ships to the United States.

President Trump arrived in France for the annual G7 Summit, with the flagging global economy and ongoing trade war with China framing his visit, and the meeting potentially further exposing deep rifts between the USA and other countries over trade and climate change.

"I judge they admire the exchange battle", Trump acknowledged when asked if he turned into going via stress from his allies to present up the exchange battle with China. "I have no idea how the president thinks he can order companies to stop working with China".

This latest increase comes after China retaliated against the first increase, raising tariffs on $75 billion worth of American goods.

Although the president has broad powers over initiating armed conflict, running his party, hiring and firing, and even reprogramming millions of dollars in funding, there is no known legal authority to tell companies where to invest.

Even without the emergency threat, Trump's retaliatory action Friday - further raising tariffs on Chinese exports to the US - had already sparked widespread outrage from the business community.

Therefore, the earlier these China hawks let go of their addiction to the tactic of maximum pressure, the sooner the two sides can figure out their trade problems. Top of the agenda would be the "economic global situation", Macron said, and how to "decrease tensions and fix the situation in terms of trade". In advance of their meeting, Johnson warned Trump that his trade war was "not the way to proceed", and risked pushing the global economy into a downturn.

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"There are all sorts of people, who will take any excuse at all to interfere with free trade and to frustrate trade deals, and I don't want to see that".

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow offered a different explanation when interviewed Sunday by CBS' "Face the Nation", saying Trump "didn't quite hear the question". The new duties would be implemented in two batches - the first from September 1 and the second from December 15, reported South China Morning Post.

"When these tariffs were initially imposed by China in 2017, American exports of finished vehicles dropped by 50 per cent", said John Bozzella, who represents auto manufacturers. But White House aides claimed he engineered a late change to the summit schedule, adding economic issues to the agenda.

From there, the war expanded in a tit-for-tat manner that we've become used to at this point and has been shown to have a measurable impact on the economies of both the United States and China. The National Retail Federation Senior Vice President for Government Relations David French said in a statement on August 23.

"He needs no advice, he is the right man for the job", Trump said.

He acknowledged he has no concerns about the market's reactions to his tariffs on China, and that he's been getting praise and compliments from other leaders about the American economy.

China denies Trump's accusations of unfair trade practices and has resisted concessions to Washington. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China.

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