{"id":374528,"date":"2018-08-23T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T09:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-china-implement-new-tariffs-escalating-trade-war\/"},"modified":"2018-08-23T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T09:53:14","slug":"presstv-us-china-implement-new-tariffs-escalating-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-china-implement-new-tariffs-escalating-trade-war\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US, China implement new tariffs, escalating trade war"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has started levying 25-percent tariffs on 16 billion dollars\u2019 worth of Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to start implementing a threat to retaliate with its own levies on American goods.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US on Thursday began collecting the additional 25-percent duties on 279 Chinese import product categories, including semiconductors, chemicals, plastics, motorbikes, and electric scooters.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing retaliated with its own fresh tariffs on 16 billion dollars\u2019 worth of additional US imports, including fuel, steel products, automobiles, and medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The US and China have slapped retaliatory levies on a combined 100 billion dollars\u2019 worth of products from each other since early July, with more in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Commerce Ministry said in an online statement that Beijing \u201cresolutely opposes\u201d the latest tariffs by the US and would respond accordingly, adding that China will file a complaint with the World Trade&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/23\/571993\/US-China-trade-war-tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has started levying 25-percent tariffs on 16 billion dollars\u2019 worth of Chinese imports, prompting Beijing to start implementing a threat to retaliate with its own levies on American goods. The US on Thursday began collecting the additional 25-percent duties on 279 Chinese import product categories, including semiconductors, chemicals, plastics, motorbikes, and electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-374528","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\/374528","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}