The worlds biggest Trade Blocs is deepening with china announcing new tariffs on Brandy Imports from the european unIon. It follows last Weeks DecisIon by the eu to push ahead with Import Taxes of its own on Electric Vehicles from china. Last Year China imported about 1. 8bn of brandy from the eu with the vast majority coming from france. From Friday Companies that import will have to pay a tariff of up to 39 to the chinese government after they decided their own producers were being unfairly harmed. It follows the eu pushing ahead with tariffs of up to 45 of chinas Electric Vehicles which it says have benefitted unfairly from government help. Last Year Trade between the Eu And China was worth about 811 BillIon after it fell last year. With more tarfffs under consideratIon, it could fall further. Im joined now by Dr Deborah elms, head of Trade Policy at the Hinrich FoundatIon in singapore. It describes itself as a philanthropic organizatIon that works adavance sustainable trade. So the
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President joe biden has increased tariffs on 18 billion worth of imports from china. Hes accused the country of unfairly subsidising its Clean Energy Sector and flooding International Markets with cheap goods. From new york, the bbc s erin delmore reports. It is not often we find former President Trump and current present biden in agreement but President Biden is not only keeping tariffs enacted by Spread Assessor but increasing them. They focus on the key technologies that power the green transition and include a 100 tariff on all chinese made electric vehicles imported into the United States. That is up from 25 . And a doubling of the levy on solar cells to 50 and a doubling of the Levy On Semiconductors to 50 . President biden says they are designed to protect us manufacturers from being undercut by china in the industries of the future from ev to solar cells, semiconductors, steel and illuminance and even Health Equipment like gloves and masks. , equipment like gloves and masks. I,
They focus on the key technologies that power the green transition and include a 100 tariff on all chinese made electric vehicles imported into the United States. That is up from 25 . And a doubling of the levy on solar cells to 50 and a doubling of the Levy On Semiconductors to 50 . President biden says they are designed to protect us manufacturers from being undercut by china in the industries of the future from ev to solar cells, semiconductors, steel and illuminance and even Health Equipment like gloves and masks. China heavily subsidised these products which china produces more of than the world can absorb and then dump the excess on the market. Driving other manufacturers around the world out of business. China has criticised the plans and vowed to take all necessary actions in response. But since the imports targeted represent less than 5 of total us imports from china the move could carry more symbolic weight and could be a move to attract voters, november. The tariffs will hav