China Imposes Punitive Tariffs on Japanese GoodsThe Chinese government announced Thursday that it will impose an 100 percent punitive tariffs on imports of Japanese made automobiles, mobile phones and air conditioners in response to Japan's discriminative treatment to some Chinese export products.According to the Tariff Policy Commission of the State Council of China, a total of 60 varieties of products originating from Japan will be subject to a 100 percent tariff rate beginning June 22. This tariff will be imposed on cars, sports utility vehicles, buses and trucks. The Japanese government imposed temporary emergency import curbs on three farm products that come mainly from China on April 23. The Tariff Policy Commission said in a bulletin that the Japanese government has adopted unfair limits on export goods from China. The commission said that this activity has constituted discriminative treatment to export goods from China and incurred serious damage on the export of products and relevant domestic industries of China. The commission said that since the Japanese side failed to change its practice although China has made many representations to it, the commission decided to impose special tariffs on the Japanese products beginning June 22, 2001. |
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