China on Friday (February 28, 2025) vowed to take “all necessary countermeasures” after U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned he would impose a further 10% tariff on Chinese imports.
Mr. Trump’s latest transfer is because of enter impact on Tuesday alongside sweeping 25% levies on Canadian and Mexican imports, intensifying a brewing commerce warfare between the world’s two largest economies.
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The 10% tariff on Chinese imports will come on prime of an present levy of the identical fee imposed by Mr. Trump on China earlier this month.
In response to Mr. Trump’s allegations that Beijing is contributing to a lethal fentanyl disaster within the United States — his justification for the tariffs — a spokesperson for China’s Commerce Ministry mentioned in an announcement Friday that Washington was “shifting the blame”.
“China is one of the countries with the strictest and most thorough anti-narcotics policy in the world,” the assertion learn.
“But the U.S. side has always ignored these facts,” it mentioned.
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“If the U.S. side insists on going its own way, the Chinese side will take all necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests,” it mentioned.
The assertion additionally warned that the tariff hike “is not conducive to solving [the United States’] own problems”, including that it might “increase the burden on American companies and consumers, and undermine the stability of the global industrial chain”.
Published – February 28, 2025 11:48 am IST