China initiated the investigation into the global trade organisation (WTO) in connection with the plans of the United States to impose additional Duties on Chinese goods, according to the Ministry of Commerce of China.

last week, Washington said about the intention to introduce additional limits in the amount of ten percent on goods from China, the annual volume of supplies 200 billion. In Beijing, it is called unacceptable and promised without delay to appeal to the WTO. Trade relations the United States and China

in early April, the US published a list of 1, 3 thousand Chinese items against which have the opportunity to impose import Duties in response to the violation by China of intellectual property rights for American products. In mid-June, the United States imposed a 25 percent duty on goods from China, it has affected presumably one-tenth of Chinese imports to America. The fresh charges relate to the import of Chinese items that contain important industrial technologies in the amount of $ 50 billion. Duties will start to charge from 6 July.

China, for its part, immediately announced that it would impose a 25 percent import duty on 659 items imported from the United States of goods worth $ 50 billion. Customs duty starts not fully operative from 6 July.

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