By Stella Qiu and Se Younger Lee
By Stella Qiu and Se Younger Lee
BEIJING, Feb 18 (Reuters) – China stated on Tuesday it will settle for purposes for brand new tariff exemptions for 696 merchandise imported from the US together with key agricultural and vitality merchandise equivalent to pork, beef, soybeans, liquefied pure fuel and crude oil.
The exemptions, the third and essentially the most substantial set to be granted so far by China for the reason that begin of the commerce dispute with the US, come a month after the signing of a Section 1 commerce deal between Washington and Beijing. China has dedicated to boosting its purchases of products and providers from the US by $200 billion over two years.
Different merchandise topic to exemption on further tariffs imposed through the escalation of the bilateral commerce dispute embrace denatured ethanol and a few wheat, corn and sorghum. Some medical units and metals together with copper ore and concentrates, copper scrap and aluminium scrap are additionally topic to exemption, China’s finance ministry stated in an announcement.
The exemptions come amid a coronavirus…