{"id":69795,"date":"2025-03-03T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/03\/china-us-relationship-trump-tariff-deadline-agriculture-impact"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T06:12:27","slug":"china-likely-to-target-us-agriculture-state-media-reports-as-trump-tariff-deadline-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69795","title":{"rendered":"China likely to target US agriculture, state media reports, as Trump tariff deadline nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global Times signals Beijing\u2019s likely countermeasure after US president threatened a further 10% duty to come into force on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>China is preparing countermeasures against fresh US import tariffs that are set to take effect on Tuesday, China\u2019s state-backed Global Times reported, with American agricultural exports likely to be targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump last week threatened China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/27\/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico\">with an extra 10% duty,<\/a> resulting in a cumulative 20% tariff, while accusing Beijing of not having done enough to halt the flow of fentanyl into America, something China said was tantamount to \u201cblackmail\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/03\/china-us-relationship-trump-tariff-deadline-agriculture-impact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Times signals Beijing\u2019s likely countermeasure after US president threatened a further 10% duty to come into force on TuesdayChina is preparing countermeasures against fresh US import tariffs that are set to take effect on Tuesday, China\u2019s state-&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,6,50,437,558,557,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-economics","category-global-economy","category-international-trade","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69795","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69796,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69795\/revisions\/69796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}