Does the Trump administration really want to stir up a trade war? Just as U.S. public opinion continues to pour off, Trump has already given a fist when Trump may strike China this year on trade issues.
On the 22nd, the U.S. government announced that it will impose high tariffs on imported PV products and large washing machines to protect the domestic related industries. The tax collection measures are not solely for China. However, the biggest impact on PV products is in China. The biggest impact on washing machines is in South Korea This is not a heavy punch compared to Trump's constant shouting of 'America's losing on the trade issue', but public opinion speculates that this may just be the tentative start of a floodgate or a step by step turn on.
The unilateral practice of the United States will naturally not be accepted by other parties. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said on the 23rd that the United States adopted a rigorous taxation measure as an abuse of trade remedies. China expresses its strong dissatisfaction with this. , China will work with other WTO members to resolutely defend its own legitimate rights and interests.After a while ago, Wang Hejun, director of the Bureau of Trade Relief Investigation of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, made a statement expressing similar views. On the 23rd, the Korea Ministry of Industry, Trade and Industry Resources said that the ROK Appeals to the World Trade Organization will be filed.
'The incident is very serious in nature.' Song Guoyou, deputy director of the Fudan University's American Studies Center, told the Global Times reporter that its viciousness is not about how much damage PV products in China will be, but rather that the means it uses are totally Unilateral, and even lost by the WTO ruling 16 years ago, George W. Bush used the same measures to limit the import of steel, other countries to initiate litigation, the WTO verdict the United States lost the case.Understanding the violation of the WTO rules, the Trump administration And to do so, stating that it is of a poor nature, also shows that Trump did not speak of the rules in order to "give priority to the United States," and did not know how far he would go on the road to trade protection.
This is exactly what everybody is wary of, and South Korea's Central Daily News said on the 23rd that Trump's true face of 'U.S.-firstism' is equivalent to announcing a 'trade war' under the banner of protectionism. '' Next is Germany Iron and steel industry? "All sorts of signs indicate that Trump's tariff barriers not only target solar panels and washing machines, but may be just the beginning, and Washington's first major trade decision of the New Year is not a good one for German companies either The Washington Post said the move may indicate that the Trump administration wants to launch a broader attack on its trading partners, Bonn, a trade expert with the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said: "This is really likely to open the floodgates."