{"id":69294,"date":"2025-02-04T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/04\/explainer-what-industries-china-us-tariffs"},"modified":"2025-02-04T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:01:51","slug":"big-tech-to-tungsten-what-industries-are-the-focus-of-chinas-new-us-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69294","title":{"rendered":"Big tech to tungsten: what industries are the focus of China\u2019s new US tariffs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retaliatory tariffs described as \u2018political theatre\u2019 as Beijing thought to want to avoid escalating trade war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/04\/trump-china-tariffs\">China unveils US tariffs and Google investigation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/feb\/04\/donald-trump-tariffs-live-blog-news-updates-canada-trudeau-mexico-china\">US China tariffs \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minutes after Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on China came into force on Tuesday, China\u2019s government announced its own retaliatory tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese tariffs focus on a range of sectors \u2013 big tech, energy, cars, farming, and fashion \u2013 but with some specific targets. China\u2019s finance ministry said it would impose levies of 15% for US coal and liquid natural gas and 10% for crude oil, farm equipment and large displacement vehicles and pickup trucks. Some high-profile US companies were also put under investigation or blacklisted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/04\/explainer-what-industries-china-us-tariffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retaliatory tariffs described as \u2018political theatre\u2019 as Beijing thought to want to avoid escalating trade warChina unveils US tariffs and Google investigationUS China tariffs \u2013 live updatesMinutes after Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs on China came into force o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,415,58,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-technology","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69295,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69294\/revisions\/69295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}