China announced on Wednesday that it will retaliate against the United States’ latest round of tariffs on Chinese imports with its own 25% charge on $16 billion worth of U.S. goods.
The retaliatory tariffs will affect 333 goods, including large passenger vehicles and motorcycles. Other additional items affected include various fuels, fiber optical cables, coal, Vaseline, grease, plastic products, asphalt products, and recyclables.
In this latest tit-for-tat trade war between the United States and China, the announcement came after the U.S. finalized a list of $16 billion worth in Chinese goods targeted for tariffs, which will take effect on Aug. 23. In total, 25% tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese goods have been affected.
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“This is tit-for-tat exactly,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley FBR. “Our $16 billion comes at a scheduled time, which comes up on the 23rd. China said we see your $16 billion and we’ll match your $16 billion.”
“They’ll pretty much match what we do until they have no more levers to pull. The bad news is the trade war fears in China are escalating. The major concern right now in trade is China,” Hogan said.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 60 points, but has rallied since and is now down just 23 points as of 11:10 a.m. ET. The S&P 500 was up just over a point and the Nasdaq Composite was up 11 points.
Trade tensions between the two economic superpowers have been an ongoing affair until news broke that private talks were taking place between the U.S. and China to work out their trade difference. Prior to that, the U.S. slapped tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods on over 800 items, prompting China to respond with its own $34 billion worth of tariffs on over 500 U.S. goods.
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