China has struck back at President Trump.
On Friday evening in Beijing, in a rapid-fire series of policy announcements including 34 percent across-the-board tariffs, China showed that it has no intention of backing down in the trade war that Mr. Trump began this week with his own steep tariffs on imports from around the world.
China’s Finance Ministry said it will match Mr. Trump’s plan for 34 percent tariffs on goods from China with its own 34 percent tariff on imports from the United States.
w1-coroapgSeparately, China’s Ministry of Commerce said it was adding 11 American companies to its list of “unreliable entities,” essentially barring them from doing business in China or with Chinese companies. The ministry imposed a licensing system to restrict exports of seven rare earth elements that are mined and processed almost exclusively in China and are used in everything from electric cars to smart bombs.
The commerce ministry also announced it was beginning two trade investigations into American exports of medical imaging equipment — one of the few manufacturing categories in which the United States remains internationally competitive.
During the seven-week hush-money trial of Donald Trump in Part 59,89vip slots Wednesdays were a day off. It was a day when few reporters filed into Justice Juan Merchan’s courtroom, and few television camera crews jockeyed for positions outside the courthouse.
There have been none of the usual trips to Provincetown or Fire Island. Get-togethers with friends were limited to drinks and appetizers.
China’s General Administration of Customs said that it would halt chicken imports from five of America’s biggest exporters of agricultural commodities and sorghum imports from a sixth company.
And China’s State Administration for Market Regulation announced that it suspected the China division of DuPont, the American chemicals giant, had violated China’s antimonopoly law and would investigate. DuPont had said in a statement that it took the matter very seriously and was reviewing China’s claims.
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