{"id":3540,"date":"2018-04-04T04:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=e401428eb578e68757b5967fdfb35da1"},"modified":"2018-04-04T04:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:10:22","slug":"china-raises-tariffs-on-50b-of-us-soybeans-other-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/china-raises-tariffs-on-50b-of-us-soybeans-other-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"China raises tariffs on $50B of US soybeans, other goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &#8212; China has raised tariffs on $50 billion of U.S. goods including soybeans, aircraft and automobiles in response to Washington&#8217;s increased duties on Chinese goods in a technology dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The Commerce Ministry on Wednesday criticized the U.S. move as a violation of global trade rules and said China was acting to protect its &#8220;legitimate rights and interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said a 25 per cent tariff would be imposed and the date the charges will take effect would be announced later.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute stems from U.S. complaints that Beijing pressures foreign companies to hand over technology in return for market access.<\/p>\n<p>Companies and investors worry the conflict could dampen worldwide commerce and set back the global economic recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING &mdash; China has raised tariffs on $50 billion of U.S. goods including soybeans, aircraft and automobiles in response to Washington&rsquo;s increased duties on Chinese goods in a technology dispute. The Commerce Ministry on Wednesday criticized the U.S. move as a violation of global trade rules and said China was acting to protect its &ldquo;legitimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}