US demands China reconsider ‘catastrophic’ ban on importing foreign garbage & recyclables. Amid fears of a potentially devastating trade war between the US and China, Washington has urged Beijing not to implement the ban on US garbage and recyclable materials that Asia’s giant threatened to impose last July.
In an effort to battle the "illegal foreign garbage" influx into China, last July China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it plans to ban imports of 24 types of solid waste materials, such as soda bottles, mixed paper, recycled steel and newsprint. Despite the threat to implement the ban by the end of the year, the document stated that the “proposed date of adoption” is “to be determined.” rt.com/news/422255-us-china-garbage-recyclables-import/
“We request that China immediately halt implementation and revise these measures in a manner consistent with existing international standards for trade in scrap materials, which provide a global framework for transparent and environmentally sound trade in recycled commodities,” the US spokesperson noted, at the WTO Council for Trade in Goods session in Geneva.
“China’s import restrictions on recycled commodities have caused a fundamental disruption in global supply chains for scrap materials, directing them away from productive reuse and toward disposal,” the trade representative pointed out, according to Reuters.
What part of "He is mentally retarded" don't you understand?
Isaiah Brown
WELL... I GUESS like first you poking China and threatening them with massive 50-60 billion tariffs and then you are bitching like a little boy that China is reacting back at you. HELLOOO -fucking Helllooo I'm not a fan of China but in this case they are in the right.
Washington’s demand came a day after President Donald Trump ordered the US Trade Representative (USTR) to levy tariffs on at least $50 billion of Chinese imports. Although the USTR was given 15 days by Trump to propose a list of Chinese products that will be targeted, China’s commerce ministry has already threatened to take legal action against the US through the WTO. The country is also contemplating targeting 128 American products through an imposition of harsh import tariffs.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry also made clear that it has all the necessary means to engage in a trade war with the US but urged Washington to reconsider its aggressive economic policy. Beijing warned that “the American consumers and enterprises will bear the brunt” of a trade war with China.
Grayson Martinez
Maybe it's time we cut ties with China. I'm tired of hearing about how China owns everything. We can find some other country that will help with our garbage problem.
Jacob Bailey
He's gonna use this to blame China for climate change. Cap this
Levi Stewart
>I'm tired of hearing about how China owns everything. But that is America's fault. It was American businessmen who years ago because of greed moved factories to China. Chinks took the offer and run with it. America has only itself to blame now.
Nathaniel Gomez
LOL, I wouldn't be surprised
Grayson Reed
Fuck China, the (((WTO))) and the Chinese shills spamming up the board. You don’t get to dictate the terms. Look at the trade imbalance. Look at how you faggots steal our IP.
but user, who enabled China to become what it is today?? do you have any ideas??
Noah Garcia
GO to hell shill
Jeremiah Davis
Serious question: Do we really win a trade war with China? What does winning a trade war look like? In other words, what would be considered a victory and what would be considered a loss?
Daniel Torres
>American (((businessmen)))
Jayden Cook
O REALY, so you think Trump is acting like a sane person in this instance ??
Elijah Jackson
>Do we win? Yes. >What does a win look like? What we're going to do. >what would be considered a victory and what would be considered a loss? It's a trade war. There is no winning or losing, it's just about forcing one side to instigate open warfare first.
Mason Thompson
>Impose tariffs on Chinese shit
>They tariff agriculture and refuse to take our trash
>Everything in America becomes more expensive, rural Trump voters lose their farms and livelihoods and country buried under mountain of its trash, much of which is imported Chinese crap, ironically
God job Donald.
No, not at all It looks and feels like everything getting more expensive and less choice in consumer products Nobody wins a trade war, steelmakers are going to do well and everyone else will be much worse off. Companies that use steel and aluminum have already started layoffs.
Isaac Cook
but American politicians gave them green light to rape and pillage America, and of course American people were so very much happy to buy cheap shit. So now chickens coming home to roost, I guess
in this gif America is the chicken and the little dog is China, it's quite funny actually LOL
>Do we really win a trade war with China Yes >What does it look like? China kowtows (pun intended) to America because we're the highest consumer of their heavy manufacturing tool manufacturing (i.e. injection molding, robotic welding, automatic assembly) and backs off of their tariffs >What would be considered a victory? China allowing its currency to fluctuate globally like other reserve currencies
Jeremiah Mitchell
>He's not retarded. He's just a coke head. Looks like his geniuses advisers missed that option that China might use to push back. I mean act like an adult when the other player is outsmarting you...
Lincoln James
china banning shitty scrap is a good thing.
it was (partly) subsidizing the boat trips back across the pacific.
making ocean transit more expensive is good if you want to reduce trade. Next should be a ban on ships that pollute too much. Chinese ships use stuff that would pass as literal tar because it is the cheapest fuel.
Tyler Hill
Why America is not processing it's own garbage ? Anybody knows
Zachary Robinson
nice to see the west finally crumbling to Asia. These cumskins can't handle the fact that now THEY are the bitches of the supreme chinese alphas. I'm sure this century will go swimmingly for these losers kek.
