Machinery and vehicles ready for shipping at the spring of the Eastern Port of the Rama of the Port of Lianyungang in China, on September 27, 2024.
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Beijing – USA has raised tariffs to Chinese imports to triple digits. For China’s exhibitors, it means raising prices for Americans while accelerating plans to diversify operations and, in some cases, stop the shipments completely.
American consumers could lose access to certain products in June since American Sucane has stopped their plans to import textiles from China, said Ryan Zhao, director of Jiangsu Green Willow Textile.
For the continuous products are sent from China, “it is impossible to predict” how much their prices will increase for US consumers, said Thursday in Chinese, translated by CNBC. “The products take two to four months to send from the ports of China and reach the shelves of the American supermarket. In the last two months, tariffs have increased from 10% to 125% today.”
The White House has confirmed that the US rates rate. In Chinese products it was effective at 145%. Triple digit rates essential to reduce the majority of trade, an economist from the Fiscal Foundation said “The Exchange” of CNBC.
But the American-China commercial relationship won the change overnight, even when US companies obtained from China are looking for alternatives.
Tony Post, CEO or the US Career Shoes Company.
When the two initial rounds of 10% of the US rates were imposed this year, he said that four China suppliers offered to divide the cost with Topo. But now “more than the cost of the product itself has been added in import tariffs only in recent months,” he said.
“I will have to increase prices and I don’t know how to certainly have in our business,” Post said. Before Trump began with tariffs, post predicted almost $ 100 million in revenue this year, mainly from the United States
Economic consequences
The hopes of an agreement between the United States and China to resolve commercial tensions have faded rapidly since Beijing has returned in the last week with Tit-For-Tat tariffs on US goods and wide-ranking restrictions in US companies.
With pronounced tariffs, China’s shipments to the United States will probably submerge in 80% in the next two years, Julian Evans-Pritchard, chief of China Economics of Capital Economics, said Thursday night.
Goldman Sachs in Thorsday reduced his 4% China GDP prognosis given the drag of US commercial tensions and the slowest global growth.
While Chinese exports to the US. UU. Only represent approximately 3 percentage points of China’s total GDP, there is still a significant impact on employment, said Goldman Sachs analysts. They estimate that around 10 million to 20 million workers in China are involved with export businesses to the United States.
While Beijing tries to address the growth already decelerated, one of his strategies is to help Chinese exhibitors sell more at home. The China Ministry of Commerce said that the day it recently gathered the main trade associations to discuss measures to boost sales nationwide instead of abroad.
But Chinese consumers have been reluctant to spend, a trend reinforced by another drop in consumer price inflation, according to Thorsday published data.
“The Chinese domestic market cannot absorb the existing offer, much less additional amounts,” said Derek Scissors, a senior member of the American Enterprise Institute Think Tank.
He hopes that Beijing can follow his play book on the manufacture of concessions to the United States, dump products in other countries, subsidize loss companies and let other companies die. Assets diverting to other countries would probably increase local commercial barriers to China, while subsidies would exacerbate debts and deflation pressures at home, Scissors said.
China has made the impulse of consumption its priority this year and has expanded subsidies for a consumer exchange program centered on appliances. The professor at the University of Tsinghua, Li Dooki, said on Thursday “The China Connection” of CNBC that he expected the measures to boost consumption would be announced “within 10 days.”
Difficult to replace
Although the United States government has worked in recent years to encourage manufacturers to build factories in the country, especially in the high -tech sector, companies and analysts said it will not be easy to develop these facilities.
“We cannot obtain comparable equipment from sources in the USA.” “An American provider would not have the specific experience with the management and heating process.”
Tesla and other important corporations have also submitted similar requests for exclusion from US tariffs.
A large part of the goods can be mostly obtained from China. For 36% of American imports from China, more than 70% can only come from headquarters in the Asian country, Goldman Sachs analysts said this week. They said that tells me that importers will be difficult for us to find alternatives, despite the new tariffs.
On the other hand, only 10% of Chinese imports in the United States depend on US suppliers, according to the report.
The second largest economy in the world has also tried to move on to the high -end manufacture. In addition to clothing and footwear, the United States depends on China for computers, machinery, appliances and electronics, said Allianz Research last week.
Diversification
China was the second largest provider of US goods in 2024, with China imports that increased by 2.8% to $ 438.95 billion last year, according to the data of the United States Census Office. Mexico rose to the first place from 2023, while US imports of Vietnam, which has benefited from the writing of Chinese products, more duplicated in 2024 since 2019, according to data.
Several large Chinese textile companies have been moving some production to Southeast Asia, Zhao of Green Willow Textile said.
As for his own company, “this year we are developing customs in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Europe to reduce our American market dependence,” Zhao said, noting that the company could all year.
China’s trade with Southeast Asia has grown rapidly since 2019, which makes the region the largest commercial partner in the country, followed by the European Union and then the United States in 2024, according to Chinese customs data.
The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will visit Vietnam on Monday and Tuesday, followed by a trip to Malaysia and Cambodia later in the week, state media said on Friday, citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.
“I suspect that we want a situation of a bit of mole in which they are new rules that will take energetic measures against Chinese content in products that finally end in the United States,” said Deborah Elms, director of the Hinrich Foundation, day.
Trump stopped on Wednesday the plans for a strong walk on tariffs for most countries, even in Southeast Asia, but not for China.
That pause has sacrificed a relief from a letter to people like Steve Greenspon, CEO of the company of home-based home in Illinois, Honey-Can-Do International, whose company has moved more production from China to Vietnam from Trump’s first mandate.
“Pause allows us to continue business as usual outside China, but we cannot make long -term plans,” Greenspon said. “It’s hard to know how to pivot, since we don’t know what will happen in 90 days.”
Economic realities could push the United States and China towards an agreement, some analysts predict.
Gary Dvorchak, managing director of Bluehirt Group, Thorsday said that the last tariffs have only been announced in recent days and hopes that rats competition is likely to be owned before an agreement, potentially, which comes soon in the next.
Despite aggressive rhetoric, he believes that both countries have a lot to lose if tariffs become permanent. That the United States separate from Chinese products would sink China into a deeper depression, he said.
