{"id":363700,"date":"2018-06-01T20:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-trade-war-with-china\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T20:34:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T19:34:49","slug":"us-trade-war-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-trade-war-with-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US Trade War with China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington, May 29 (Reuters): The United States <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-trade-china\/u-s-to-continue-trade-actions-against-china-white-house-idUSL2N1T00D9\">said<\/a> on Tuesday that it will continue pursuing action on trade with China, days after Washington and Beijing announced a tentative solution to their dispute and suggested that tensions had cooled.\u00a0 By June 15, Washington will release a list of some $50 billion worth of Chinese goods that will be subject to a 25 percent tariff, the White House said in a statement. The United States will also continue to pursue litigation against China at the World Trade Organization.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, by the end of June, the United States will announce investment restrictions and \u201cenhanced export controls\u201d for Chinese individuals and entities \u201crelated to the acquisition of industrially significant technology,\u201d it said.\u00a0 In mid-May, China agreed to increase purchases of U.S. agriculture and energy products, and last week, the U.S. Commerce Department told lawmakers it had reached a deal to put Chinese telecommunications firm ZTE Corp back in business.\u00a0 While the announcements eased worries about the possibility of a trade war between world\u2019s two largest economies, U.S.President Donald Trump also said last week that any deal between Washington and Beijing would need \u201ca different structure,\u201d fueling uncertainty over the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on up to $150 billion of Chinese goods to combat what he has labeled unfair trade practices on the part of Beijing. Meanwhile, China has warned of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/05\/us-trade-war-with-china\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Washington, May 29 (Reuters): The United States said on Tuesday that it will continue pursuing action on trade with China, days after Washington and Beijing announced a tentative solution to their dispute and suggested that tensions had cooled.\u00a0 By June 15, Washington will release a list of some $50 billion worth of Chinese goods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-363700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}