They are here. The New Chinese tariffs to agricultural goods from the United States (USA) they enter into force on Monday. His arrival is part of a movement of response to the initial commercial war by Trump and that Beijing, precisely, justifies in response to the rates previously imposed by Washington against their products. And it is that to Chinese imports, which since February 4 already had additional tariffs of 10%, another 10% more was added.
A measure that entails that as of today, China will tax with 15% US imports of chicken, wheat and cornand with 10% to those of soybeans, pork, beef, aquatic products, fruits and dairy products, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced last week. Among the products subject to 15% rates are also cotton, and among taxes with 10%, vegetables and sorghum.
US President Donald Trump had decided to duplicate additional tariffs to the Asian country at 20% since He returned to the White House in his second termjustifying his decision in his eyes for Beijing does not do enough to avoid the Fentanyl entrance In the US.
China, which also added to several US companies to their export control list and their list of unreliable entities, has reiterated in recent days that it considers the explanation of the Republican A mere “pretext”since Chinese anti -drug policy “is one of the strictest in the world.”
The American agricultural sector has China as one of the main destinations of its exports, although they have registered declines in recent years. In 2024, China imported 13.76 million tons of corn, of which 2.07 million came from the North American countryaccording to data from the China Grain specialized portal, which ensures that the United States became the main foreign corn provider of the Asian country, but has already been surpassed in recent years by Brazil and Ukraine.
As for wheat, China imported last year 1.90 million tons of American wheatamount that represented approximately 17.3% of the total imports of this cereal. The portal also points out that China’s dependence on EUEU’s soybeans has decreased in recent years, to represent in 2024 21% of the total volume of imported soybeans, a trend that has benefited countries such as Brazil, a country from which 71% of the soybeans that the Asian giant imports.
In February, China had already imposed taxes between 10 and 15% to other US productsin addition to establishing controls to key mineral exports and opening an investigation against the technological giant Google. In his first presidency (2017-2021), Trump has already maintained a tense relationship with Beijing by imposing several rounds of tariffs worth 370,000 million dollars annually, to which China responded with taxes to US exports.
Commercial tension, also with Mexico and Canada
However, the Republican has extended this commercial tension to other countries such as Canada and Mexicowith which since its return the presidency has maintained a strip and loosen in these terms. Without going any further, a few days ago new tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports were also entered into force. Specifically, all imports are taxed with 25%tariffs, except those of Canadian hydrocarbons products, which will have a 10%tax.
While those referring to cars will not establish until April 2. Precisely, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum showed this “optimistic” Sunday about the application of these tariffs, referring to the regulations of the T-MEC Agreement-the treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada that the tenant of the White House negotiated in his first mandate-prohibits the imposition of said taxes.
“I want to express that we are optimistic because (..) The United States government announced that it would put reciprocal tariffs to all countries of the world (…) Mexico is not in that area because we from us 30 years ago we have signed two commercial treaties With which it is established that we do not have tariffs with them or them, that is, reciprocal tariffs should not be applied, “he said in a public act collected by the ‘Animal Politico’ news portal.
During the event held in Mexico City, the president also stressed that, between and February 2025, fentanyl traffic was reduced by more than 30% “Thanks to the seizures carried out by the Ministry of Citizen Security and Protection and the Armed Forces”. Importance extreme by taking into account that the Republican is also based on the traffic of this drug to justify its tariff measures against Mexico.
Source: Lasexta
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