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The real purpose of U.S. launching a trade war reveals that U.S. ambition to launch a trade war is c

Recently, the United States has taken frequent actions in the field of economy and trade, imposing high tariffs on imported steel and aluminum products, imposing tariffs on China's $60 billion goods and restricting Chinese enterprises' investment in the United States. In the official account of the United States, the trade war with China is to protect the national security of the United States and solve the problem of intellectual property rights.

Since the "trade war" started, the U.S. initiative can be summarized as 232 and 301, respectively, to protect "national security" and solve "intellectual property" issues.

232 is the Article 232 of the trade expansion act of 1962, which is used by the U.S. government to impose 25% and 10% tariffs on steel and aluminum products produced in China on the grounds of endangering national security. The key word is national security.

301 is the latest round of "301 investigation". According to the trade law of 1974, the White House collects punitive tariffs on China's intellectual property rights and other issues. The key word is intellectual property rights.

The U.S. government said it was taxing Chinese exports of U.S. steel because it endangers U.S. national security.

However, according to the statistics of China Customs, American Iron and Steel Association and Lange Iron and Steel Research Center, a third-party organization, China exported 5.4 million tons of steel to the United States in 2006, but only 1.18 million tons in 2017, a 78% drop. One of the reasons is that the United States has repeatedly imposed sanctions on China's steel.

Today, Canada ranks first and China 11th in the number of steel imports from the United States. But 232 the report mentions China 202 times and Canada only 24 times.

As a result, China was imposed a 25% tariff and Canada was temporarily exempted from this round of sanctions. It seems clear whether this is a double standard of the United States and whether it uses national security as an excuse for protectionism to curb China's trade.

Trade protection? 18 jobs will be lost for every job created in the United States

According to the report released by the US Global trade company, Trump's tariff on China's steel and aluminum will increase 26346 jobs in the steel industry in this round, but for downstream industries such as automobile, construction, transportation and manufacturing industries that need to purchase steel and aluminum for production, the tariff increases the price of steel and aluminum, and the increase in cost will cause the company to reduce 495136 jobs. The tariff will eventually result in a net loss of 468790 jobs, equivalent to 18 jobs per job created.

Before that, in 2002, the Bush administration increased steel tariffs by 30% to China, resulting in the unemployment of 200000 workers in the downstream industry and the loss of 4 billion US dollars in wages.

American farmers: the Chinese market is the hope

In Iowa, a state dominated by farming, its soybean association brings together 40000 local farmers. Grant & Middleton Kimberley, director of market development at Iowa Soybean Association, said that the Chinese market is their hope. At the beginning of spring sowing, almost all farmers here are worried about the market prospect.

Grant & Middleton; Kimberley:

Many farmers and our members have expressed their concerns to us. Our leadership is also worried. We hope that we can plant crops normally. At this autumn harvest, the market still needs our agricultural products.

Grant said they have conveyed the concerns of local farmers to the United States government, hoping to get the attention of the federal government and change their practices.

Grant Kimberley:

Agriculture is very important for Iowa and the United States. We attach great importance to the Chinese market. We don't want to see any trade frictions, and we're very disappointed with that.

The real purpose of the United States: to slow down the strategy of "made in China 2025"

According to the U.S.'301 investigation ', the U.S. side imposed sanctions on some industries exported by China to the U.S. in the future due to China's infringement of U.S. intellectual property rights, specifically divided into ten areas:

New generation information technology industry, high-end CNC machine tools and robots, aerospace equipment, marine engineering equipment and high-tech ships, advanced rail transit equipment, energy-saving and new energy vehicles, electric power equipment, agricultural machinery equipment, new materials, biomedicine and high-performance medical devices.

These ten areas are in line with those listed in China's "made in China 2025" plan. In response, the article of the New York Times said that the real consideration of the United States is to curb the upgrading of China's manufacturing industry and slow down the strategy of "made in China 2025" as a powerful country.

In November 2017, at the Sino US economic and Trade Forum of CSIS, those who participated in or supported the 301 investigation also said that the next round of US economic and trade sanctions against China aims to slow down or even drag down the process of China's high-end technology catching up with the United States in an all-round way, so as to ensure the global leadership of us high and new technology and its strategic leading position.

Therefore, from a micro perspective, intellectual property is indeed a topic for China and the United States, but from a macro perspective, the deeper consideration behind the United States is that the United States uses intellectual property as an excuse to suppress China's upgrading to a top manufacturing power by means of tariffs.