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China has increased tariffs by up to 25 percent on 128 U.S. products, from frozen pork and wine to certain fruits and nuts, escalating a dispute between the world's biggest economies in response to U.S. duties on imports of aluminum and steel.
The tariffs, which take effect on Monday, were announced late on Sunday by China's finance ministry and matched a list of possible tariffs on up to $3 billion in U.S. goods published by China on March 23.
Soon after the announcement, an editorial in the widely read Global Times newspaper warned that if the United States had thought China would not retaliate or would only take symbolic countermeasures, it could "say goodbye to that delusion".
"Even though China and the U.S. have not publicly said they are in a trade war, the sparks of such a war have already started to fly," the newspaper said.
The Ministry of Commerce said it was suspending its obligations to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to reduce tariffs on 120 U.S. goods, including fruit and ethanol. The tariffs on those products will be raised by an extra 15 percent.
Eight other products, including pork and scrap aluminum, would now be subject to additional tariffs of 25 percent, it said, with the measures effective starting April 2.
(Score: 5, Informative) by MostCynical on Tuesday April 03 2018, @06:26AM (8 children)
Not quite right with number 2..
https://www.foodsafety.gov/news/fsma.html [foodsafety.gov]
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(Score: 5, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday April 03 2018, @06:44AM (7 children)
Even CA and FL can't produce fresh fruit year-round.
Export when you harvest, import when you don't.
(Score: 4, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:38AM (1 child)
Translations:
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:58AM
We're already a global ecology [google.com].
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @08:38AM (2 children)
Canada is selling tomatoes. Canada!!!
Fruits and vegetables are grown indoors in some pretty strange places: Alaska's northern shore, Antarctica, the space station...
LED lights have greatly helped us to do this.
We ought to move to this for all fruits and vegetables, for food safety reasons. Stuff grown outdoors gets hit with bird shit.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @09:48AM (1 child)
Dogs keep pissing on my tomatoes.... I get a salty one and I know right then I should have washed it first.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @12:42PM
Keep a bear in your backyard. It can feed itself.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday April 03 2018, @11:56AM
Except, Florida imports California citrus in bulk, and vice-versa - WTF?! When it's cheaper to ship 4000 miles than it is to store for 60 days, something is out of whack.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by archfeld on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:25PM
Arizona ranks second in the country (only to California) in the production of lettuce (head, leaf, and romaine), cauliflower, broccoli, spinach, cantaloupes, honeydews, and lemons. But yes you do make a good point, and I don't expect to subsist entirely off American based goods, though it would be nice if I could, but at least I'd like to know when I can't, and what companies I can depend on to try and maximize my use of domestic locally sourced items.
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