
Cargo shipping containers sit on the Evergreen Ever Fame container ship docked at a container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California on February 3, 2025. — AFP
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China on Tuesday imposed taxes on import of coal and liquid natural gas from the United States, in the retaliation of Washington’s 10 % of Levies in Washington.
Within a few minutes of the announcement of US President Donald Trump’s “unilateral tariff hike”, the Ministry of Finance said it would generate 15 % of the revenue for US coal and LNG. The ministry said Beijing’s new revenue on US exports will begin on February 10.
It also unveiled 10 % of the tax on imports from the United States crude oil, agricultural machinery, large migratory vehicles and pickup trucks.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced massive measures against major trade partners, including Canada and Mexico, with Chinese goods he faces the top 10 % of the duties of duties that they first They tolerate.
Trump said the aims of these measures are to punish countries for failing to stop illegal immigrants and drug flow, including fantasy in the United States.
“The US move has seriously violated the rules of the World Trade Organization, doing nothing to solve its problems, and the general economic and trade cooperation between China and the United States is disrupted,” said China.
He filed a complaint with the WTO today to “defend its legitimate rights and interests” in response to the increase in US taxes on Chinese goods.
The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement, “China has filed a lawsuit against US tariff measures under the WTO dispute settlement procedure.”
Beijing prices, which are implemented next Monday, announce Trump immediately. It was later that he would call President Xi Jinping in the next 24 hours.
To invest in Google on collective violations to China
Beijing also said it would investigate US Tech Dev Google over violations of anti -collective laws. The State Administration for Market Regulation said the US Tech Dev is “suspected of violating the anti -mass law of the People’s Republic of China”.
As a result, it has “launched an investigation from Google according to the law,” the administration said in a statement.
It did not provide further details about the allegations against Google.
American Tech Behmut’s primary search engine and many of its services are blocked in China, where US Internet Titans have long been struggling to do business due to “great firewall” that prevents politically sensitive content –
Google abandoned its Chinese -language search engine in the mainland in 2011 and moved it to Hong Kong.
As of 2014, China stopped the last rest of the way to access Google’s email service Gmail.
Beijing also said on Tuesday that it would include the US fashion group PVH Corporation – which owns Tommy Halfigar and Calvin Klein.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement that the move would “protect national sovereignty, security and development interests according to relevant laws”.
He added, “The aforementioned two companies usually violate the principles of market transactions, interfere with Chinese businesses, and take discrimination against Chinese businesses.”
China said in September that it was investigating PVH for boycott of cotton from its Xinjiang region, where Beijing was accused of widespread rights violations.
Canada, Mexico deals
Mexican President Claudia Shenbam and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier in the last minute to tighten border measures in the United States to tighten border measures against migrants and phenomena flows with Trump, to tighten border measures in the United States, As a result, there was 30 days at risk rates.
Asian equality increased on Tuesday over the news of the revenue, and it is hoped that similar talks could remove the world’s two economy taxes. However, the traders benefited some of these benefits when China unveiled its actions.
On Monday, the threat of 25 % levies on imports from Canada and Mexico in global stock markets raised concerns about the World Trade War.
Trump said he would immediately stop prices on Mexico after a “very friendly” conversation with Shenbom, and his counterpart agreed to send 10,000 soldiers to the US Mexico Frontier.
‘No trade battle’
The tension between the United States and Canada was more visible – but after two calls with Trudeau, Trump said of the truth of the truth that the Prime Minister “we have a safe northern border, and eventually the fatal of drugs like Phantinel. He agreed to end the curse. ” .
Trudeau said the Canadian will deploy nearly 10,000 10,000 frontline officers to help secure the border, will enter the drug cartel as a terrorist, set “fentine kabar” and mini Will break the laundering.
This was not actually clear to the changes on the Canadian border, provided officials said they already had 8,500 personnel in December.
Canada, China and Mexico are the three largest trading partners in the United States.
The White House said that there was a “lot of conversation” in the weekend.
“This is not a trade war, it is a drug war.”
However, US government data suggests that Canadian via can only minimize drugs.
The American President – who has said that the word “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary – he is moving far beyond his first period in his first term.
He insisted that unlike most experts, the effects would be tolerated by foreign exporters to US consumers through foreign exporters.
But the billionaire 78 -year -old man acknowledged that Florida returned from a weekend on Sunday, acknowledged that Americans could probably feel “inconvenience”.