TMTPOST -- China on Friday made good on a promise to hit back at U.S. President Donald Trump’s hefty 34% additional tariffs with a wide range of countermeasures, from the reciprocal tariffs, new export controls on rare earth, to blacklisting dozens of American companies and curbs on U.S. farm goods.
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China will impose additional 34% tariffs on all products imported from the United States starting from April 10, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council announced in a statement on Friday. The commission noted that the existing bonded policies as well as tax reduction and exemption policies will remain unchanged, while the new additional tariffs to be imposed will not be reduced or exempted.
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and General Administration of Customs (GAC) on Friday announced export control measures on certain items related to 7 types of medium and heavy rare earths, effective immediately, reported state news agency Xinhua.
The measures aim to better safeguard national security and interests and fulfill non-proliferation and other international obligations, a commerce ministry spokesperson said. These target materials have both military and civil uses, imposing export controls on them is a common international practice, the spokesperson said, adding that the move reflects China's consistent stance in firmly maintaining world peace and regional stability as a responsible major country.
China has filed a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization's (WTO) dispute settlement mechanism following the announcement by the United States on Thursday to slap "reciprocal tariffs" on all trading partners, the MOFCOM said. A spokesperson for the ministry described the new U.S. tariffs as “a typical unilateral practice of bullying that jeopardizes the stability of the global economic and trade order”, and slammed such move for it “gravely violates WTO rules, seriously undermines the legitimate rights and interests of WTO members, and seriously damages the rules-based multilateral trading system and the international economic and trade order.”
China on Friday unveiled more countermeasures to specific American companies and threatened to levy duties on imported medical CT tubes.
To safeguard national security and interests as well as fulfill international obligations such as non-proliferation, the MOFCOM has decided to ban the export of dual-use items from China to 16 U.S. entities, which have been added to an export control list by the ministry. The affected entities engage in activities that may endanger China's national security and interests, a statement of the ministry said.
The MOFCOM said in a separate statement China has added 11 U.S. firms, including Skydio and BRINC Drones, to its unreliable entity list, and holds the 11 firms accountable for their unlawful activities, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations. These companies, in disregard of strong opposition from China, have undertaken so-called military technology cooperation with Taiwan, seriously undermining China's national sovereignty, security and development interests, a spokesperson said in the statement.
The GAC said has decided to suspend the exports of poultry meat from some U.S. firms to China as well as suspend the qualifications of some U.S. firms to export certain products to China.
Effective April 4, China will suspend the qualification of C&D (USA) Inc. to export sorghum to China. It will also suspend the qualifications of three other U.S. firms, namely American Proteins, Inc., Mountaire Farms of Delaware, Inc. and Darling Ingredients Inc., to export poultry meat and bone meal to China, the GAC said.
DuPont, a U.S. company known for innovations in chemicals, materials science, and biotechnology, became one of the latest targets. China's top market regulator, the State Administration for Market Regulation, said it has launched a probe into DuPont China Holding Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the U.S. firm, over its suspected violation of the nation's anti-monopoly law.
The MOFCOM announced it has launched an anti-dumping probe into certain imports of medical CT tubes originating from the United States and India, as well as a separate industrial competitiveness investigation into broader imports of medical CT tubes.
The anti-dumping investigation was opened in response to the application from the domestic industry, which submitted preliminary evidence showing shows that from 2022 to 2024, the volume of dumped imports of these products from the two countries increased by 13%, while their prices continued to decline. The industrial competitiveness probe was also initiated at the request of the domestic industry facing operational difficulties due to the impact of imports, which has adversely affected its competitiveness, a spokesperson for the ministry said.
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