Trade War Round 2: US Releases China Tariff List Targeting 1,300 Products

• Trade War Round 2: US Releases China Tariff List Targeting 1,300 Products
  by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Assuring that a second retaliation by China in the escalating trade war is just a matter of days if not hours, moments ago the US Trade Representative released a list of Chinese product subject to 25% tariffs as part of Trump’s Section 301 crackdown on Beijing Intellectual Property abuses, focusing on China’s high tech product push.
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  The list covers about 1,300 tariff lines, or 44 pages, the USTR said referring to a system of codes used to categorize products. It added that the value of the list is approximately $50 billion in terms of estimated annual trade value for calendar year 2018, a level which is “appropriate both in light of the estimated harm to the U.S. economy, and to obtain elimination of China’s harmful acts, policies, and practices.” Some example of are shown below:
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