China Announced that on Tuesday, they will impose additional tariffs up to 15 percent of imports of key American products on farm, including chicken, pork, soybean and beef, and will also expand business control with key American companies.
Tariffs announced by the Ministry of Trade should take effect on March 10, although the goods that will be exempted by April 12 already in transit. They follow US President Donald Trump’s command to raise tariffs to import Chinese products to 20 percent throughout the side. They came into force on Tuesday, Together with 25 percent of imports from imports from Canada and Mexico.
Imports of American grown chicken, wheat, corn and cotton will face an additional 15 percent of tariffs, the Ministry’s notice is said. Cheese tariffs, soy, pork, beef, seafood, fruits, vegetables and dairy products will increase by 10%.
Also on Tuesday, Beijing put 10 more US companies on its unreliable list of entities, which would ban them to deal with imported or export activities related to China and bringing new investments in the country. Some have already probably faced with cinema trade limitations if their products can be used in both military and civilian purposes.
The companies listed are TCO, limited partnership; Stick Rudder Enterprises llc; Teledyne Brown Engineering; Huntington Ingalls Industries; S3 airports; Cubic Corporation; Textore; ACT1 Federal; Exover and Planning Management Group.
Cinema added 15 US companies to her export control companies, including airline and defense companies such as General Dynamics Land Systems and General ATOMICS Aeronautical Systems.
“China has decided to include 15 American entities that endanger Chinese national security and interests in the export control list, forbidding the export of the double use item,” the Ministry states.
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While the Beijing tariffs have imposed on American agricultural products, China refrained from imposing higher tariffs throughout the Committee, and “both sides have shown restraint,” said Sun Chenghao, a professor of international relations at Tsinghua University.
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“Now he hopes to eventually conclude a trade agreement with China,” Sun said. “In the long run it is possible that China will continue to negotiate now, but the current atmosphere is not good.”
Raising the tariffs, now they have returned kindness with hostility, said a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry Lin Jian.
“I would like to repeat that the Chinese have never been afraid of evil, they do not believe in ghosts and have never been harassed,” Lin said.
China is the main importer of American agricultural products, although the purchases dipped after Trump started a trade war during his first term of office and then recovered. In 2024, China introduced $ 24.7 billion in USA agricultural products from the USA, $ 14% out of its $ 176 billion in total agricultural exports. Mexico was the largest importer of US agricultural goods, followed by Canada.
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The Chinese Ministry of Trade included about two dozen exports of the US farm subject to an additional 15 percent of tariffs, including chicken feet and wings, and 711 items subject to an additional 10 percent of tariffs.
In 2021-22, the United States recorded record export values in cinema because of soy, corn, beef, chicken meat, nuts and cheeses. Cotton exports to China also recovered, according to the US Ministry of Agriculture. The exports of the US farm in China amounted to $ 33.8 billion in a fiscal 2023 and $ 36.4 billion in a fiscal 2022.
China diversified its sources for imports of agricultural holdings, buying more soybean than Brazil and Argentina, among other breeders.
Beijing is ready to reciprocate, said Xu Botoo, director of the Goglobal Institute’s research at Equatheocean, a Chinese pressure based in Shanghai, “The Chinese government and Chinese companies will not be easily scared and give up resisting unjust trade pressure from the US and other countries,” said Xu.
The end result will depend on how the US side approaches Beijing, analysts said.
“So far, they have not sent a positive signal now. If they want to talk now, it should not damage the atmosphere,” Sun said.
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