China slaps extra tariffs of up to 15% on imports of major US farm exports, including soy and beef

BEIJING (AP) — China announced Tuesday it volition enforce further tariffs of up to 15% connected imports of cardinal U.S. workplace products, including chicken, pork, soy and beef.

The tariffs announced by the Commerce Ministry are owed to instrumentality effect from March 10. They travel U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid to rise tariffs connected imports of Chinese products to 20% crossed the board. Those took effect connected Tuesday.

Imports of U.S. grown chicken, wheat, maize and fabric volition look an other 15% tariff, it said. The tariff connected sorghum, soybeans, pork, beef, seafoods, fruit, vegetables and dairy products volition beryllium accrued by 10%.

Also Tuesday, Beijing placed 10 much U.S. firms connected its unreliable entity list, which would barroom them from engaging successful China-related import oregon export activities and from making caller investments successful the country.

The firms listed are TCOM,Limited Partnership; Stick Rudder Enterprises LLC; Teledyne Brown Engineering; Huntington Ingalls Industries; S3 AeroDefense; Cubic Corporation; TextOre; ACT1 Federal; Exovera and Planate Management Group.

Senior executives of these companies volition besides beryllium banned from entering China and enactment permits, and Chinese visitant and residency permissions besides volition beryllium revoked, the Commerce Ministry said.

The companies were placed connected the database for selling arms to oregon cooperating connected subject technologies with Taiwan successful caller years, the ministry said. China claims the self-governed land arsenic its ain territory.

The summation of the 10 companies comes aft China past period added 2 firms, manner institution PVH Group and biotechnology institution Illumina, to the unreliable entities list.

Separately, China added 15 U.S. companies to its export power list, including aerospace and defence companies similar General Dynamics Land Systems and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, among others.

“China has decided to see 15 U.S. entities that endanger China’s nationalist information and interests successful the export power list, prohibiting the export of dual-use items to them,” the ministry said successful a statement.

China's is simply a large importer of American workplace products, though its purchases dipped aft Trump launched a commercialized warfare during his archetypal word successful office, and past recovered.

In 2021-22, the United States logged grounds export values to China for soybeans, corn, beef, chickenhearted meat, histrion nuts, and sorghum. Cotton exports to China besides rebounded, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. U.S. workplace exports to China totaled $33.8 cardinal successful fiscal 2023 and $36.4 cardinal successful fiscal 2022.

But China has been diversifying its sources for workplace imports, buying much soybeans from Brazil and Argentina, among different growers.