{"id":378409,"date":"2018-09-24T19:41:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-china-increase-tariffs-as-trade-war-intensifies\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T19:41:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:41:06","slug":"presstv-us-china-increase-tariffs-as-trade-war-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-china-increase-tariffs-as-trade-war-intensifies\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US, China increase tariffs as trade war intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States and China have imposed new tariff hikes on each other&#8217;s goods, giving no sign of compromise in an intensifying trade war that is weighing on global economic growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US regulators went ahead with a planned 10 percent tax on a $200 billion list of 5,745 Chinese imports including bicycles, furniture and other consumer goods. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s customs agency said it responded at noon Monday by beginning to collect taxes of 5 or 10 percent on a $60 billion list of 5,207 American goods, from industrial chemicals to honey.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides had already imposed 25 percent penalties on $50 billion of each other&#8217;s goods in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump threatened last week to add $267 billion in Chinese imports to the target list if Beijing retaliated for the latest US taxes. That would cover nearly everything China sells to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s imports of American goods last year totaled $153.9 billion while the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/24\/575081\/US-China-trade-new-tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and China have imposed new tariff hikes on each other&#8217;s goods, giving no sign of compromise in an intensifying trade war that is weighing on global economic growth. US regulators went ahead with a planned 10 percent tax on a $200 billion list of 5,745 Chinese imports including bicycles, furniture and other [&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-378409","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\/378409","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=378409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}