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China promises WTO case against latest U.S. tariffs

September 3, 2019 at 5:37 PM
China will challenge new U.S. tariffs -- some of which went into effect on Sunday -- on $272 billion worth of Chinese goods via the World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement system, Beijing's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday. “On September 1, the first batch of US tariffs on China's 300 billion U.S. dollars exported to the United States was officially implemented,” a MOFCOM statement reads. “[China] will file a lawsuit under the WTO dispute settlement mechanism. The U.S. [tariff] measures...

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