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China and the U.S. are NOT having any consultation or negotiation on #tariffs. The U.S. should stop creating confusion,
the Chinese Embassy in Washington wrote on social media I don't think it's a sign of weakness on his behalf,
There are some companies who have said that if a long-term tariff war continued, their business model would not work in China and we would see them exit,
We’re still quite a distance away from … an agreement that will be long-lasting and could actually address the U.S.’s grievances with China’s economic practices,
Higher tariffs on these goods would’ve risked significant blowback onto China’s own tech industry, as well as its ambitions to break its dependence on imported goods” — something Beijing considers a “necessary evil” in the near term
said Nick Marro, principal economist for Asia at the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research firm We must further consolidate the foundations of our country’s economic recovery, and the impact of internal shocks is increasing,
the 24-member group of top officials said after a meeting Friday It's pharmaceutical firms on the exemptions, but I believe it is drug-specific and not a sector-wide exemption."
Asked by Reuters after the event if he could specify which sectors those companies came from, he said Anecdotally, companies are reporting that they are able to bring in some items without tariffs,
Michael Hart, the chamber's president, said during an online press conference in Beijing We only found out after we filed the declaration—without doing that, we wouldn't have known,
The Chinese government, for example, has been asking our companies what sort of things are you importing to China from the U.S. that you cannot find anywhere else and so would shut down your supply chain,
American Chamber of Commerce in China President Michael Hart said on Friday It’s the same movie again and again,
said Mike Bowen, whose company, Prestige Ameritech, was one of the few domestic mask makers before the pandemic, and who repeatedly warned Congress about the risks of relying on foreign-made P.P.E. Even with a 100 percent tariff, the Chinese mask that sells for a penny is still going to be cheaper than the American-made one that sells for eight cents,
It’s difficult to make business decisions when policies change every four years, and now every couple of days,
said Scott McGurl, a health care industry expert at the consultancy firm Grant Thornton It just seemed like the right thing to do,
said Mr. Bielamowicz, whose company, United States Mask, was one of more than 100 start-ups that sprung up during the first terrifying year of the pandemic One or two long-term government purchase contracts would have gotten us over the finish line, but the team at H.H.S. just wasn’t interested anymore,
he said, referring to the Department of Health and Human Services Never again will another president inherit empty shelves,
he said in May 2020, speaking at a Pennsylvania mask facility operated by Owens & Minor I’m pretty freaked out,
said Lloyd Armbrust, the chief executive of Armbrust American, a pandemic-era startup that produces N95 respirator masks at a factory in Texas Our national security is at risk because we’ve once again put ourselves at the mercy of adversarial, nondemocratic countries,
I think it will change behavior, because people will have to adjust to the reality that you can’t buy below-market price rate stuff from China anymore,
