China Opens Inquiry Into U.S. Sorghum as Trade Tensions Worsen
The United States exported about 4.8 million tons of sorghum to China in 2017, worth about $1 billion, accounting
for nearly all of China’s imports of the grain last year, according to Chinese customs data.
He has labeled the challenges posed by the Chinese economy as a threat to United States national security
and opened separate trade investigations related to Chinese steel and aluminum imports and into whether Chinese stole intellectual property.
It came less than two weeks after the United States said it was imposing tariffs on solar panels and washing machines
that were aimed at curbing cheap imports from China and South Korea.
BEIJING — China has opened an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into sorghum imports from the United
States, the latest salvo in an escalating trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.
A United States business lobby group warned last week
that Chinese officials have threatened to retaliate against American companies if the Trump administration imposes tariffs, saying that agricultural and aircraft imports may be the most at risk