{"id":111428,"date":"2025-05-18T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111428\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:15:09","slug":"china-slaps-anti-dumping-duties-on-plastics-from-us-eu-japan-and-taiwan-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/111428\/","title":{"rendered":"China slaps anti-dumping duties on plastics from US, EU, Japan and Taiwan \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China on Sunday announced anti-dumping duties as high as 74.9 percent on imports of POM copolymers, a type of engineering plastic, from the United States, the European Union, Japan and Taiwan, Reuters reported. <\/p>\n<p>The Chinese commerce ministry&#8217;s findings conclude a probe launched in May 2024, shortly after the U.S. sharply increased tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, computer chips and other imports, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-announces-anti-dumping-duties-plastics-us-eu-japan-taiwan-2025-05-18\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-announces-anti-dumping-duties-plastics-us-eu-japan-taiwan-2025-05-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>POM copolymers can partially replace metals such as copper and zinc and have various applications, including in auto parts, electronics and medical equipment, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/english.mofcom.gov.cn\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/english.mofcom.gov.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the ministry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The highest anti-dumping rates of 74.9 percent were levied on imports from the United States, while European shipments will face 34.5 percent duties, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing&#8217;s move comes after the U.S. and China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-china-cut-tariffs-dramatically-donald-trump-trade-war\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-china-cut-tariffs-dramatically-donald-trump-trade-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cooled their trade war<\/a> on May 12 by agreeing to slash punitive tariffs against each other in a 90-day truce. The suspension allows time for further negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China on Sunday announced anti-dumping duties as high as 74.9 percent on imports of POM copolymers, a type&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[15193,1395,1396,1305,2000,8812,299,5187,1699,475,2122,10687,2943,479,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-111428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-asia-economy","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-dumping-duties","11":"tag-electric-vehicles","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-china-relations","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-imports","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-plastics","20":"tag-taiwan","21":"tag-tariffs","22":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114528316629928003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}