Wednesday, April 4, 2018

US plans 25% tariffs on 1,300 Chinese imports

More than a thousand Chinese products are the subject of a new round of proposed US tariffs.  

The 25% tax would affect 13-hundred products worth about 50-billion-dollars. 

It's an effort to correct the country's ballooning trade deficit with China and a response to Beijing's imposition of duties on about 3 billion dollars worth of US exports.

A review process is underway till May before the list can take effect.

But our Washington correspondent Kate Fisher says many US businesses don't want to see them imposed

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