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szdaily -> World Economy -> 
US trade groups digest tariffs on China goods
    2018-04-05  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

THE list of 1,300 Chinese products the United States is targeting with tariffs spared some American industries, punished others and left many struggling to figure out if they would be hurt or not.

Clothing and shoes were left off the list, but consumer goods such as TVs were included, drawing an outcry from retailers. The long litany of items singled out by the U.S. Trade Representative on Tuesday for a 25 percent duty ranged from the arcane (Reel-fed offset printing machinery, double-width newspaper printing presses) to the widely used (dishwashing machines of the household type) to the just plain weird (flamethrowers, dental cement).

“Stuff that you put on your body: spared. Stuff you put in your home: targeted,” said Hun Quach, vice president of international trade for the Retail Industry Leaders Association.

In some cases the tariffs targeted raw materials and components used to assemble finished goods in the United States, such as ingredients for insulin, while in others the items were complete products, like Chinese-assembled cars. Many of the affected products were machines used to make other things, vexing factory owners accustomed to being praised by Trump for manufacturing in the United States.

While apparel and footwear won’t get additional tariffs, some equipment used to make them, like textile printers and injection molders for shoes, are getting taxed.

“Tariffs on certain machinery will make American-made products more expensive,” said Matthew Shay, president of the National Retail Federation.

One trade group, Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA), cheered the outcome. “I’m so proud of the effort that footwear companies, executives, employees, and FDRA staff put forward to help keep footwear off President Trump’s new tariff target list,” said Matt Priest, the group’s president.

But the American Apparel & Footwear Association, which represents manufacturers, provided a mixed response, praising the absence of footwear from the list but warning that tariffs on machinery would “directly raise costs on domestic manufacturers and impact our ability to grow Made in USA.”

But the impact of the tariffs depends a lot on how much American companies rely on Chinese equipment to make their products. A tax on “machinery for the manufacture of confectionery, cocoa or chocolate” might sound bad for Hershey Co., but the Pennsylvania chocolatier said it doesn’t use Chinese machines. (SD-Agencies)

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