Respond to tariffs with more tariffs. This is what China has warned on Monday that will do if Donald Trump imposes ten percent tariffs on the products that the United States imports from the Asian country.
In the absence of knowing the scope of the reprisals announced by Beijin, Víctor Gao, an expert in relations between Beijing and Washington, tells Efe that China “will be firm” with Trumpinsisting that “he will run back into the harsh reality that a ‘decoupling’ between the two powers is impossible” because “their economies are closely intertwined.”
Meanwhile, analysts cited by the local press emphasize that tariffs “They violate the WTO’s principles” for its “discriminatory treatment that undermines loyal competition among its members.” “They will have serious international repercussions. The tariffs are going to disturb the international commercial order, “says the academic Ying Ponguang to the Global Times newspaper, while the expert Ji Wenhua states that tariffs could cause” a global commercial war “.
Other local analysts already pointed out on Saturday that tariffs They have no “clear economic justification” and that “they will alter the functioning of the supply chains around the world.” “They will be counterproductive. They will give rise to an increase in the prices of imported goods, which will increase the burden on US consumers and undermine the competitiveness of their companies,” Chinese experts forecast.
Reactions already arrive for the signature of the upload of Donald Trump’s tariffs. For the 25% increase to Canada and Mexico. For 10% to China. Because they have responded. The three. And all on the same path, with measures and notices or threats to the US after the Republican’s decision.
Canada and Mexico manage to suspend tariffs
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has announced an agreement reached with the US president, Donald Trump, which includes the deployment of more security forces on the border and a 30 -day moratorium in the 25 percent tariffs announced by Washington .
“I just had a good conversation with President Trump. Canada will apply the border plan of 1.3 billion dollars to reinforce the border with more helicopters, technology and personnel, better coordination with the US authorities and more resources to curb the flow Fentanyl, “Trudeau explained in a publication in the social network X.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumalso has reached an agreement To pause for a month the 25% tariffs announced by Trump and that came into force on Tuesday.
Sheinbaum and Trump have maintained a telephone conversation in which both have reached a series of agreements, including the Deployment of 10,000 National Guard agents on the common border.
“I always raised that we wanted me to pause the rates, from the first moment, the tariffs, then in this case We arrive at that agreement“Sheinbaum explained.
Although at first he raised these tariffs “forever“, Then he went to propose a one -month pause.” He agreed and in the end he asked me how much time he wanted to pause (the tariffs), I said (first): ‘Well, we are going to put it in pause forever, And I said: ‘Well, let’s put it in pause a month.’ And I am sure that in this month we will be able to give results, good results to his people, “he has detailed.
For his part, the president of the United States has confirmed having spoken with Sheinbaum in what qualifies as a “friendly conversation“. The soldiers who will be on the border between Mexico and the United States will be commissioned, according to Trump, to” stop the entry of fentanyl and illegal migrants “to their country.
During this month, both administrations will hold conversations in which they will try to reach an agreement. By the United States, they will be present with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubiothe Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besentand the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick. Trump expects “participating” in these negotiations with Sheinbaum with the objective of achieve an “agreement” Between both countries.
China will take the case to the WTO
China, the same. The Asian giant has launched, like Mexico, another notice. He has done it after the 10% rise to tariffs. To the increase imposed by Washington, by the United States, by the administration of Donald Trump, for the fentanyl. For a new international economic framework of the Republican that has Asians, to Mexico, to Canada and Europe as objectives.
In Beijing, who until now had opted for dialogue and their willingness to work together with Trump for “stable, healthy and sustainable relationships”They have changed their way. In addition to promising reprisals, they have confirmed that they are going to take the case to WTO also emphasizing that Trump’s decision regarding these new rates “will undermine future drug control cooperation.”
Because while they remained silent, China prepared, according to experts, to respond to the different scenarios that Trump was already advancing in his electoral campaign, with a tariff rise that could even become 60%, and that has already already Begin with a 10% increase to all Chinese product Under the pretext of the fentanyl.
Fentanyl as an argument
And is that China, as has happened with the 25% rise to Mexico and Canada, is in Trump’s focus. To argue the tariff increase, the Republican has put as an explanation The alleged involvement of the Chinese in fentanyl traffic and other drugs in the United States.
The Chinese government, meanwhile, argues that the US must address that crisis “objectively and rationally”, instead of putting tariffs as a form of “pressure” for other countries. “The rates are not constructive,” says a statement shared by the exterior spokesperson in which they also defend that Beijing includes fentanil and its precursors under regulatory regime since 2019.
In recent months, a message from “Broad cooperation”, “advances” and “effects effects” mechanisms to stop the manufacture and traffic of the aforementioned drug. From Washington, meanwhile, it is argued that Mexican cartels manufacture this substance with chemicals acquired in China.
That is something that Beijing dodges with the argument that there is no country that can monitor the use given to the chemicals it exports. “It’s like sanction steel and iron producers Because arms suppliers use that for wars, “says a senior Chinese official of the Ministry of Public Security.
For its part, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has exposed, in another statement, that the “unilateral” tariff measures “suppose “A serious violation of WTO standards”that “under normal economic and commercial cooperation between the two countries.”
Everything comes from before
And it is that China and Donald Trump are already known before ‘. In the first mandate of the Republican in the White House, he imposed several tariffs on Asians that They led to a tense relationship and a pekin response with reprisals against US exports.
In the campaign, Trump already let out what was going to happen, promising benefits that would be added to taxes by the Government by Joe Biden. The Democrat opted for fees to electric vehicles and restrictions for semiconductors and thus stop the technological ambitions of the Asian giant.
Beijing appealed to self -sufficiency and replied with restrictions on the export of materials such as Germanio, Gallium, Antimony and Graphitekeys in the manufacture of semiconductors and batteries.
Source: Lasexta
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