WASHINGTON: Steep American tariffs on Chinese goods worth tens of billions of dollars took effect when the clock struck twelve Thursday night as US President Donald Trump fired the first salvo in a trade war between the world’s top two economies.
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This file photo taken on May 19, 2018 shows a worker welding steel at a shipyard in Nantong in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. AFP PHOTO[/caption]