By: Steve Dellar | 04-10-2018 | News
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China - President Jinping Vows To Lower Tariffs on Cars

In the global game of ‘chicken’ which is now called a ‘trade war’ between China and the US, Beijing seems to have ‘blinked first’, after President Xi Jinping made a speech today promising to ‘lower tariffs’ on the imports of foreign cars (making it easier for US and European carmakers to export to the Chinese mainland, a huge market) and to widen the reach of intellectual property protection, in fact doing thus exactly what the White House Administration wants.

You will recall that US President Donald Trump had yesterday highlighted the difference in import tariffs on foreign cars between the US and China in a tweet, when he stated that: “When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%. Does that sound like free or fair trade. No, it sounds like STUPID TRADE - going on for years!</p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983284198046826496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Of course Mr Jinping’s speech writers made it sound like the Chinese President was simply championing ‘global trade’ rather than admitting to a request from his US counterpart, when he said: "Human society is facing a major choice to open or close, to go forward or backward."

"In today's world, the trend of peace and co-operation is moving forward and a Cold War mentality and zero-sum game thinking are outdated."

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Wanting to counter Mr Trump’s America First policy, Mr Jinping said to the hundreds of investors gathered on the resort island of Hainan that: "paying attention only to one's own community without thinking of others can only lead into a wall. And we can only achieve win-win results by insisting on peaceful development and working together."

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The admission to lower tariffs comes one week after US President Donald Trump had asked the USTR (United States Trade Representative) to find an additional $100bn worth of products to impose tariffs on after he had already imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum.

Source:

http://www.todayonline.com/world/xi-jinping-pledges-greater-openness-amid-trump-trade-dispute

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Anonymous No. 22771 2018-04-10 : 08:54

It's almost like Trump made the right move

Anonymous No. 22772 2018-04-10 : 08:58

22771 - Now just wait till someone in the MSM admits that….

Anonymous No. 22773 2018-04-10 : 09:06

22772

I did some homework, and it's entirely possible that this isn't as big of a victory as it might seem. If China makes more concessions though, then we might be onto something.

Anonymous No. 22775 2018-04-10 : 09:17

22771 - opening up a market of 1.5bn people to foreign car exporters by lowering your import tariffs, seeing the price of aluminum drop…. Trump is simply using the 40% headway he has in the stock market to run this one out. Look at Russia, their stock and rubles are dropping like a rock since US sanctions. China knows that this will happen to them as well and therefore declare submission. Trade war over before it begun.

Anonymous No. 22776 2018-04-10 : 09:21

we MSM now

Julie No. 22806 2018-04-10 : 15:53

Our President has been playing chicken with everything including N. Korea. Enough with diplomacy when it comes to leaders who don’t believe in diplomacy.

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