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China US trade war kicks off

Saturday, 07 July 2018 12:54 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 07 July 2018 12:57 AM ]

Containers are transferred at a port in Qingdao in China's eastern Shandong province on July 6, 2018. (AFP)

Steven Ribet
Press TV, Beijing

The US-China trade war has started after a months-long war of words. Washington and Beijing have imposed tariffs on thirty-four billion dollars' worth of each other’s exports. The first round of tit-for-tat tariffs came after U-S President Donald Trump threatened to extend levies to all imports from China. Our Beijing correspondent Steven Ribet has more.

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