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USA-China trade: When Trump puts his threats into action.

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;<span class&equals;"dropcap dropcap3">We<&sol;span> can&&num;8217&semi;t continue to allow China to rape our country&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s what we&&num;8217&semi;re doing&&num;8230&semi; We&&num;8217&semi;re going to turn it around&comma; and we have the cards&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t forget it&&num;8221&semi;&period; This was one of the most popular declarations that Donald Trump had delivered in one of his election speeches for the post of US President for 2017- 2020&period; And Trump&&num;8217&semi;s promise to remedy this imbalance in the American-Chinese trade balance seems to be executed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Indeed since January 2018&comma; Trump has started the procedures and made the decisions that will allow absorbing the deficit of this trade balance&comma; it is a deficit of 375 billion dollars owed annually by the United States to the Republic of China&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This multitude of decisions started with the implementation in January 2018 of a tax on products from China&comma; including household appliances&comma; namely washing machines and solar panels&comma; over a period of 4 years old&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This first decision was the cause of the outbreak of a trade war between the two countries&comma; according to the principle of reciprocity<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>America did not stop with the taxation of the products mentioned above &lpar;solar panels and washing machines&rpar; but amplifies the situation by applying more customs taxes in early March on other products from China&comma; such as aluminum and steel&comma; then the proposal of a list of 1300 products to be imposed at the end of the same month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China obviously did not sit idly by but responded from the start of the threats from the US president&comma; and it started&comma; first&comma; by the devaluation of its currency so that Chinese products remain cheaper in the United States and even become cheaper than American products produced locally&comma; and therefore the balance of trade will remain in favor of China because the latter&&num;8217&semi;s exports to the United States will remain more important than in the opposite direction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>This devaluation of the Chinese Yuan was perceived by Donald Trump as an unfair and voluntary practice&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>China is not only satisfied with the devaluation of its currency but also applies customs taxes on certain products from America&comma; and even decides to suspend its imports of US agricultural products&comma; and in this way&comma; it has succeeded well in hitting where it hurts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This trade war between the two world powers had serious repercussions on the economy of the two countries&comma; on their companies and on the employees of these companies&comma; such as the Chinese company operating in the USA &&num;8220&semi;HUAWEI&&num;8221&semi; suspected of spying&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And it cannot be concluded which of the two powers is in a position of strength and which of them is playing its last card because in truth the two lose seriously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>China will lose a large part of its export earnings&comma; and the US will lose its 50 billion agricultural exports&comma; and in addition it will have to find a solution quickly to produce locally the products normally imported from China&comma; such as auto parts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Finally&comma; the two countries should expect slower growth and an increase in the unemployment rate if they do not find a compromise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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