US President Trump has announced that it will increase tariffs to Chinese imports. China’s Ministry of Commerce wants to take countermeasures. Again it is about drug allegations.
China’s reaction promptly comes to Donald Trump’s announcement that after a previous ten percent additional tariffs to Chinese goods, tariffs of ten percent. That would then be a total of 20 percent, which will be due from next Tuesday (March 4) on goods that are introduced from China to the USA.
“It is ten plus ten,” said US President Trump in front of reporters during a meeting in the Oval Office with the British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer. “Okay. Was there confusion? Ten plus ten. It’s a second ten.” Previously, he had announced the tariffs in his online service Truth Social.
Allegations also against Mexico and Canada
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce then declared that if the USA continued, China would take all the necessary countermeasures to defend its legitimate rights and interests. Instead, the Chinese leadership hopes that the United States were looking for dialogue to solve differences – at eye level, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also commented. The United States would have taken the drug problem with fentanyl again to threaten Chinese products that are exported to the USA with additional tariffs, spokesman Lin Jian. China is therefore extremely dissatisfied and decidedly reject this.
Trump accuses China and also the countries of Mexico and Canada not to take enough against the smuggling of the fatal drug fentanyl. Every year, around 75,000 people die from an overdose of fentanyl in the United States.
Already announced in the election campaign
The Chinese side has repeatedly rejected allegations and referred to China’s very strict drug laws. In fact, the Chinese leadership in 2019 exacerbated the controls to Fentanyl, whereupon the direct trade in the USA decreased. According to US information, the drug continues to reach the United States via third countries.
“The drugs come over Mexico. Many of them, not all, but many of them come from China,” said Trump.
The US President could now gradually increase the customs set to Chinese goods in order to continue pressure. Because in his election campaign, Trump had announced tariffs of up to 60 percent of Chinese goods.
