On Sunday, the Chinese government denounced the Trump administration by a longtime price of 10% on Chinese imports while leaving the door open to talks with the United States which could avoid a deepening conflict.
Beijing will challenge President Donald Trump’s tariff to the World Trade Organization – a symbolic gesture – and will take “countermeasures” not specified in response to the tax, which takes effect on Tuesday, said finance and trade on Tuesday China.
This response has ceased immediate escalation which had marked China’s commercial confrontation with Trump during his first mandate as president and repeated the most measured language that Beijing has used in recent weeks.
Trump ordered prices on Canadian and Mexican imports on Saturday 25% and 10% on goods from China, saying Beijing should stop the fentanyl flow, a potentially deadly opioid in the United States.
The response to the end of China marked a contrast to the direct reprisals and the stormy language of Canada, an American long -standing ally and Mexico, another higher destination for American exports.
After announcing Canada’s response to American prices, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the next few days will be “difficult for Canadians, and that they will be difficult for the Americans.” Trudeau said Canada will take a price of 25% out of $ 155 billion in American products in response to the 25% prices of US President Donald Trump from most Canadian goods.
Trade rules raped, says China
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that Trump’s decision “seriously violates” international trade rules, urging the United States to “engage in a frank dialogue and strengthening cooperation”.
The deposit of a legal action with the WTO could allow Beijing a victory in message by defending the trade system based on rules long recommended by the American administrations of the two political parties. Beijing did the same step in a challenge to prices up to 45% on electric manufacturing vehicles by the European Union.
At the same time, a call from the WTO does not represent a cost or immediate threat to Washington.
The WTO dispute settlement system has actually been closed since 2019, when Trump blocked judges’ appointments to manage calls. Since President Barack Obama, the United States has accused that the WTO appeal body has exceeded its authority.
For weeks, the spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, said Beijing thought there is no winner in a trade war.
Chinese officials were also encouraged by the signs that Trump could seek a more nuanced relationship with China since a conversation he had with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping last month.
Republicans and Democrats came to consider China as the largest foreign policy and the economic challenge of the United States.
Strengthen links with allies
The massive trade surplus of China – nearly $ 1 Billion last year – is a vulnerability for Beijing. Chinese exports in key industries, including cars, have increased more quickly in volume than value, suggesting that manufacturers reduce to try to win sales abroad when demand at home has flouted.
For this reason, analysts expected
China is also preparing for the move of Trump for a long time planned for a long time for months by deepening links with allies, by pushing a certain self -sufficiency in key fields of technology and putting aside funds to support a vulnerable economy.
The Chinese economy, the second largest in the world, has achieved its official growth target of five percent last year, even if many complained to reduce employment prospects and worsen the standard of living.
On Sunday, the quickest China was above fentanyl, an area where the Biden administration had also urged Beijing to repress the expeditions of pioneering chemicals manufactured in China necessary to make the medication.
“Fentanyl is the problem of America,” said the Chinese Foreign Ministry. “The Chinese part has carried out a vast anti-narcotic cooperation with the United States and has obtained remarkable results.”
