新闻来源：www.bloomberg.com
原文地址：US Finalizes China Tariff Increases Biden Announced in May
新闻日期：2024-09-13
美国贸易代表办公室周五正式批准对中国商品加征关税，并将于两周后生效。拟议中的关税包括电动车100%关税、半导体和太阳能电池板50%关税以及电池零部件和许多关键矿物的25%关税。其中大部分措施将在9月27日实施，微处理器的关税将延迟到2024年，而天然石墨则要到2026年生效。这些变化将影响约180亿美元的美国年度进口额。
白宫发言人曾在五月中旬的一次公开讲话中首次公布了拟议中的关税清单，并指出批准后的关税与之前提议的基本一致。贸易代表办公室的决定是对2018年由前总统特朗普实行的所谓301条款关税的审查结果。这一决定标志着在2024年美国总统选举期间一个关键话题的确定，民调显示更多的选民信任前总统特朗普来管理经济，而特朗普则认为关税是保护和促进美国制造业的重要工具。
在周二的辩论中，民主党的候选人指出共和党候选人的加征关税计划是一个“特朗普销售税”，可能每年将使中产阶级家庭增加数千美元的支出。特朗普则反驳说，拜登政府保留了他对中国征收的部分关税，并且需要更多时间来审核超过1,100份公众意见书。
Biden总统在5月宣布拟议中的关税清单后，美国贸易代表办公室表示需要更多时间来审核这些建议。
原文摘要：
Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. . President ’s administration formally approved tariff increases on billions of dollars in Chinese goods on Friday, paving the way for most of them to go into effect in two weeks.The office of the US Trade Representative on the proposed that include a 100% duty on electric vehicles, 50% on semiconductors and solar cells, and 25% on battery parts and many critical minerals. Most of the increases take effect on Sept. 27, with those on computer chips next year, and natural graphite, a critical mineral for EV batteries, in 2026. The changes affect about $18 billion in annual US imports. Listen to the Here’s Why podcast on , or . The finalized tariffs are mostly unchanged from the proposal that Biden made to much fanfare at a public announcement at the White House in mid-May. The USTR move — mostly considered a formality — had been repeatedly put off, delaying the date the tariffs go into effect. The determination marks the culmination of a review of so-called Section 301 tariffs imposed by former President in 2018.Tariffs are a key issue on the 2024 campaign trail ahead of the US election in November as polls consistently show more voters trust former President Donald Trump to manage the economy. Trump has touted tariffs as a way to protect and spur US manufacturing. He has floated a sweeping 60% tariff on Chinese goods if reelected in November and a 100% tariff for .Vice President , who became the Democratic candidate for the Nov. 5 election after Biden withdrew in July, in a debate on Tuesday called the Republican nominee’s proposal for higher duties a “Trump sales tax” that would raise prices for middle class families by thousands of dollars a year. Trump countered by pointing out that the Biden administration left in place the duties that he imposed on China.USTR in late July, saying that it needed more time to review more than 1,100 public comments about Biden’s initial tariff announcement. The office said then that the tariff hikes would take effect about two weeks after it published the final determination.
