To stop the USA to threaten the China The Chinese Ministry of Commerce said with higher duties and urged more negotiations on pending issues in order to reach an agreement on trade, responding to the last measures of US President Donald Trump against Beijing.
China has accused the US of implementing “two meters and two weights”, following Donald Trump’s threat of imposing 100% customs customs customs duties on Chinese goods imported, in addition to those already implemented. China’s recent countermeasures on US issues were necessary, defensive measures, The Ministry of Commerce said in a statement today Sunday (12.10.2025). Beijing will take corresponding measures to protect its rights if the US insists on their actions, he said.
The Republican said he was reacting to the “extremely aggressive attitude towards trade” adopted by China, deciding further restrictions on the export of technologies associated with the mining and production of rare land -mines. The new duties will be implemented from November 1st or “earlier”, Mr Trump added.
“This US announcement is a typical example of what is called” two meters and two weights “,” a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce in a statement opposed a statement.
The Asian giant is the largest producer of rare land in the world. These are raw materials absolutely essential in many industries. Washington has already accused Beijing of abusing its dominant position in the field. The new checks were announced by Beijing on Thursday (9.10.2025).
In its today’s announcement, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce has ruled that Washington’s “actions” “seriously harm China’s interests and undermine (…) the atmosphere in talks on the economy and trade between the two parties”. “The threat with high duties at every opportunity is not the right way to coexist with China,” the Ministry of Commerce said. “China calls on the US to correct their wrong practices as soon as possible.”
It is recalled that Trump announced Friday (10.10.2025) additional 100% duties in Chinaas well as checks on the exports of “all kinds of critical software” from November 1, a few hours after the threat to cancel the forthcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jing.
This happened after the Imposing new port fees by China on US ships, Start of the antitrust research against Qualcomm and the announcement of new restrictions on exports of rare land and other critical materials.