{"id":32994,"date":"2025-10-12T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=32994"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:30:00","slug":"china-accuses-us-of-double-standards-over-new-tariffs-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/china-accuses-us-of-double-standards-over-new-tariffs-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"China accuses US of ‘double standards’ over new tariffs threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEIJING, Oct 12, (AFP) China accused the United States of “double standards” on Sunday, after President Donald Trump threatened an additional 100 percent tariff on the world’s second-largest economy.<\/p>\n

Trump reignited his trade war with China on Friday, accusing Beijing of imposing “extraordinarily aggressive” new export curbs relating to rare earths.<\/p>\n

He announced extra levies — plus export controls on “critical software” — due to take effect from November 1, and threatened to cancel a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, China’s Ministry of Commerce called Trump’s tariff threat a “typical example of ‘double standards'”.<\/p>\n

The ministry said Washington had ratcheted up economic measures against Beijing since September.<\/p>\n

“Threatening high tariffs at every turn is not the right approach to engaging with China,” it said in an online statement.<\/p>\n

Chinese goods currently face US tariffs of 30 percent under levies that Trump brought in while accusing Beijing of aiding in the fentanyl trade, and over alleged unfair practices.<\/p>\n

China’s retaliatory tariffs are currently at 10 percent.<\/p>\n

Rare earths have been a major sticking point in recent trade negotiations between the two superpowers.<\/p>\n

They are critical to manufacturing everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to military hardware and renewable energy technology.<\/p>\n

China dominates global production and processing of these materials, and on Thurday announced new controls on the export of technologies used for the mining and processing of critical minerals.<\/p>\n

In response, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that China had taken a “very hostile” stance and should not be “allowed to hold the World ‘captive'”.<\/p>\n

The US leader also threatened to pull out of a mooted meeting with Xi at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea later this month.<\/p>\n

It would have been the first face-to-face encounter between the leaders of the world’s two largest economies since Trump returned to power in January.<\/p>\n

– Tensions flare again –<\/p>\n

A few months ago, Beijing and Washington agreed an uneasy truce in their tit-for-tat trade war that started earlier this year and threw bilateral trade into serious jeopardy.<\/p>\n

But tensions have boiled up again in recent days.<\/p>\n

China said on Friday that it would impose “special port fees” on ships operated by and built in the US, calling it a “defensive action”.<\/p>\n

It took aim at the US’s own port fees charged on Chinese ships, claiming they “severely harmed China’s interests”.<\/p>\n

Washington announced those fees in April as part of an effort to revive American shipbuilding after a decades-long decline that has seen China and other Asian nations come to dominate the industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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