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China lodges WTO challenge to Donald Trump’s US$200 billion tariff plan
China announced it filed a World Trade Organisation challenge on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s proposal for a tariff hike on US$200 billion of Chinese goods, reacting swiftly amid deepening concern about the economic impact of their spiralling technology dispute. The one-sentence commerce ministry statement gave no legal grounds for the challenge or other details. It is an unusually rapid move for a trade case, coming less than one week after the US Trade Representative announced the tariff plan, which would not take effect until at least September. The USTR said last week that it proposed the levy in ... (full story)