r/wallstreetbets 15h ago

News China files complaint with WTO over new US tariffs

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-files-complaint-wto-over-124325157.html

GENEVA (Reuters) - China said it had opened a formal complaint against the new U.S. tariffs with the World Trade Organization on Friday, saying the measures violate WTO rules and requesting consultations.

Earlier, China announced retaliatory additional tariffs of 34% on U.S. goods, the most serious escalation in a trade war with President Donald Trump that has fed fears of a recession and touched off a global stock market rout.

"China has filed the WTO complaint with respect to the United States' measures," the Permanent Mission of China to the World Trade Organization said in a statement.

The new tariffs blatantly violate WTO rules, it added.

In the standoff between the world's top two economies, Beijing also announced controls on exports of some rare earths which it dominates, potentially cutting the U.S. off from critical minerals vital to everything from smartphones to electric car batteries and defence.

Trump on Wednesday announced China would be hit with a 34% tariff, on top of the 20% he previously imposed earlier this year, bringing the total new levies to 54% and close to the 60% figure he had threatened while on the campaign trail.

Chinese exporters, like those from other economies around the world, will face a 10% baseline tariff, as part of the new 34% levy, on almost all goods shipped to the world's largest consumer economy from Saturday before the remaining, higher "reciprocal tariffs" take effect from April 9.

China on Thursday urged the United States to immediately cancel its latest tariffs.

The WTO Secretariat confirmed to Reuters on Friday that it had received the request for consultations from China.

Bilateral consultations are the first stage of formal dispute settlement. If no solution is found within 60 days, China could request adjudication by the Geneva-based organisation's Dispute Settlement Body.

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u/Fox_Technicals 15h ago

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u/AskSecure7314 14h ago

Damn this is all I’m gonna be thinking about whenever I hear China 🥲

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u/Negative_Town3350 4h ago

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u/eddie7000 2h ago

Translation: China is going to completely ignore the WTO from now on.

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u/Strong_Brick_9703 14h ago

CHYNA

Fixed for ya

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u/sarahwhatsherface 11h ago

I hear “China” with a G

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u/SussyTerrapin69 10h ago

Where? That "G" spot is hard to find

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u/Ballaratatouille 8h ago

Real G’s move in silence like…. Ghina??

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u/-GearZen- 10h ago

ChyyynaG?

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u/FingFrenchy 8h ago

This is the loudest picture I've ever seen.

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u/m4tr1x_usmc 12h ago

*chyyynuh

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u/__JimmyC__ 15h ago

Trump will withdraw from the WTO, watch this

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u/KilluaZaol 14h ago

Trump inaugurated the demise of WTO by refusing to consent to the appointment of an Appellate Body judge, effectively paralysing the WTO since now Appeals go into void.

(I'm not being political, this is just a US behaviour that has kept true during Biden's era)

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u/ghostofgenovaheights 10h ago

They were both following in Obama's footsteps. The Obama admin blocked appointments in 2011 and 2016

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u/snickerbockers 5h ago

I'm going to take this one step further and punt the blame to W., who demonstrated that whenever one of these transnational organizations tries to tell you you're not allowed to do something because it's extremely regarded, you can just do it anyways and there will be no consequences apart from those directly caused by the regarded thing that everybody tried to warn you would be a massive waste of human life and capital.

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u/Rich_Housing971 3h ago

I'm gonna go one step further and say that Mao called it when he said, "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun", meaning that at the end of the day, the only thing that really forces someone to adhere to rules or laws or who they ally with is the fear of physical enforcement if they don't.

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u/This_Possession8867 54m ago

I’m going a step farther and say George Washington’s wig was very opposed to WTO. And Washington agreed with his wig and this is the causation of everything.

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u/BB_Fin 14h ago

So I'm a moronic internet user, regarded in my approach to life - and I figured the best way my country can punish the US is withholding IP/royalty payments at the same (30%) rate he put on us.

I mean... Others have written about this for wealth concentration and tax evasion reasons, but I don't see why it can be used (for the first time) to punish the creator of said IP/royalty rules?

What if people smarter than me realise the same thing?

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u/dillpicklejohnjohn 12h ago

A royalty payment corresponds with a signed and executed contract. A tariff is a tax. I'm not following your thought process.

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u/dabigchina 7h ago

tax on royalty income can and often is withheld at the source. Most developed countries have bilateral tax treaties with the US that reduce the rate of withholding way below 30%, but in the absence of a tax treaty, there is nothing stopping a country from placing a 30% withholding tax on royalty payments made to american businesses.

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u/sendskirtpics 9h ago

Doesn’t mean they have to pay

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u/snickerbockers 4h ago

not sure what country is your country, but if your country is china it's not going to work because they already weren't paying those anyways.

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u/peeved-penguin 2h ago

knickerbockers

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u/EmmEnnEff 10h ago

You should just petition your government to let you use American IP royalty-free.

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u/AnyBug1039 14h ago

This is the kind of statement that would have been considered a joke not long ago, but is now just a prediction

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u/zxc123zxc123 11h ago

Would a Russian agent withdraw the US from WTO?

Trump will do it if he can.

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u/SevereCalendar7606 13h ago

Yep this. He doesn't care for soft power, and at this point the UN is becoming the league of nations and needs a reboot.

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u/ManulifyGamesFlo 12h ago

WTO treated USA very unfairly for decades! Very unfair. Maybe the unfairest an organization has ever treated a country.

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u/LuigiForeva 6h ago

To be fair, there is some truth to this, from what I know.

All the developed world gets treated unfairly by WTO in comparison to China, as it qualifies as a developing country when it clearly shouldn't anymore.

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u/snickerbockers 4h ago

I don't want to sound like I agree wiht Trump because im not sure how much more liberation my schwabb account can handle but it is kind of weird thinking back to how all the ultra-leftists used to hate WTO when i was growing up and now they love it. Of course, the right exhibits a mirror-image of that hypocrisy too.

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u/Rich_Housing971 3h ago

China's per capita GDP is the same as Mexico and Turkey's. There's a very narrow definition of what a "developed country" is and none of those countries are one.

Would you consider India to be a developed country just because they have a space program or parts of Mumbai look developed?

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u/This_Possession8867 52m ago

Blame Nixon for selling us down the river when he “opened up” China. I remember learning about this as a kid and thinking we were idiots

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u/neverpost4 11h ago

That is precisely what China is aiming for.

Isolating America further.

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u/peeved-penguin 3h ago

what a ridiculous statement.

the US is isolating itself and even in this scenario, you blame china.

is there anything you don't blame china for?!

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u/SuspendedAwareness15 12m ago

China stubbed my toe on the door frame.

China spilled my milk.

China peed in my pants.

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u/EstrangedStrayed 10h ago

Inshallah 🙏

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u/Jeffy299 9h ago

Real Juche has never been tried

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u/RobertB16 14h ago

That's gonna be fun 🍿🍿🍿

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u/brotha_eric 15h ago

The WTO can’t do shit, what’s next, the gonna file a complaint with the better business bureau? 🤣

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u/Guac_in_my_rarri 15h ago

What's funny is the US has filed stuff under wto for China's patent infringement and China has told it to fuck off

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u/Key-Banana-8242 10h ago

And other things

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u/type_error Harambe Died For This 🦍🍿🚀 14h ago

Uh… USPTO only has authority for the US.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS 14h ago

Recognition of equivalent offices and industries is standard diplomatic practice…

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u/type_error Harambe Died For This 🦍🍿🚀 14h ago

It’s not exactly something the WTO oversees, at least not directly 

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u/Key-Banana-8242 10h ago

There’s other stuff

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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 15h ago

Based China

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u/Meat__Head 14h ago

China stealing US patents is based?

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u/Otakeb 14h ago

Yes. China doesn't care about our patents; only their power, economy, and peoples prosperity (insofar that the people are happy with the regime).

Why shouldn't they steal our patents and prosper from it? Patent and copyright law is monopolizing bullshit that dampens innovation and is anti-consumer.

Information wants to be free.

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u/Giant_Jackfruit 14h ago

They also don't care about human rights, international treaties, or the sovereignty of their neighbors.

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u/IronWhitin 13h ago

Seems they are doing the same as america under Trump

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u/Giant_Jackfruit 13h ago

Not to the same degree. Not even close.

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u/DontGetBanned6446 13h ago

yeah America does way worse

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u/Waygzh 13h ago

Why is Reddit upvoting this glazing of China?

America is fucking incredible compared to China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc.

It's not saying America is perfect, you twats. Kicking 5 trans women out of women's sports isn't the same as executing people for being gay.

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u/aesopofspades 13h ago

I understand what you’re saying, but the US is literally doing that now

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u/Meat__Head 14h ago

That's an insane approach. Where is the protection for the innovators who have to sacrifice capital/resources? If a free for all is allowed, then innovation will cease to exist because the rewards would go to the people who had no skin in the game.

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u/ApetteRiche 13h ago

The current IP protections are flawed though. IPs are dragged out by making tiny adjustments, it's being abused by many.

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u/Otakeb 13h ago

So? Does China care?

Also, we don't need protection; we need competition. China allowed Tesla to setup shop in China so they could siphon off tech and trained labor into BYD and now BYD makes better cars for cheaper.

The protection comes from the innovation. BYD is winning not because no one can copy their shit, but because they do it better than anyone else for cheaper. If someone copy's their shit and does everything the exact same, then they would have to have lower prices to steal market share. Can this create a race to the bottom? Yes and that would be good for consumers.

Why should you get protection to monopolize an idea because you thought of it? Think of it AND do it the best to protect it.

A great example of this principle is 3D printing. Some company patented the technology in like the late 80s and never did shit with it except try a couple of exorbitant profit extraction ventures in licensing. The patent expired in 2009, and in like 6 years we had affordable, accurate, build them yourself, desktop 3D printers that revolutionized prototyping and shortrun manufacturing. Is Creality dominant because they have a legally protected technology? No; you can get their designs and open-source software and build your own 3D printer from Home Depot parts. They are successful because they create a good product at a good price.

You have been brainwashed by monopolizing capitalist leeches.

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u/Meat__Head 13h ago

What system do you support since you're against capitalism?

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u/jnd-cz 13h ago

The innovation has to be worth for your business idea so you don't need to protect it for the next couple decades. Make it cheaper, quicker, more efficient.

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u/Fearless_Aioli5459 15h ago edited 15h ago

Its for the headline, its a symbolic middle finger so when WTO does nothing they can ramp up retaliation against US and say “well we have no other option the WTO didnt want to help teehee”

China is using this opportunity to gain face as well. They can pretend to place nice with world organizations while USA looks like the bad guy. Kind of an UNO reverse

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u/Pleasant-Anybody4372 14h ago

It will work extremely well, I feel.

China is going to make massive strides in replacing the USA as the world economic leader.

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u/Cute-Ad2879 14h ago

It already has, these tariffs are the death throws of a dying giant.

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u/asetniop 13h ago

throes

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u/egg_enthusiast 12h ago

The misuse of that phrase cheapens it; really makes it into a diamond dozen when it used to be something special.

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u/Quick1711 7h ago

It’s r/wsb my guy

Should have just let it go 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Juicybusey20 10h ago

A previously healthy giant, that was doing fine on the world stage before trump and republicans killed it 

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u/konga_gaming 13h ago

China has been spiraling into recession the past few years. Real estate prices plummeting (80% of household savings is in real estate). Deflation across all industries. Negative birth rate. Widespread social unrest among disenfranchised youth.

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u/PotatoPrince84 13h ago

A Chinese market crash has been imminent for how many years now?

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u/konga_gaming 11h ago

You don’t get it at all. China’s stock market is 60% state owned enterprises by market cap, close to 80% by ticker count. Chinese pension funds comprise at most 10-20% stocks. The stock market is even less a reflection of the economy than it is in the US.

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u/peeved-penguin 3h ago

propaganda machine.

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u/ohiobluetipmatches 13h ago

And we got Jealous, so we're trying as hard as we can to go down the same rabbit hole now.

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u/snickerbockers 4h ago

Real estate prices plummeting

WTF i love recessions

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u/This_Possession8867 49m ago

They have entire cities build just like North Korea with no one living in them.

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u/Practical_Attorney67 14h ago

And its going to work dammit. Imagine if China now forced russia to end the war in Ukraine as well. The world would switch to China faster than Trump would be able to say Ni-hao

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u/peeved-penguin 3h ago

i think the thing that will really discredit the westeren narrative about china is people actually visiting china and experiencing it first-hand. China has already loosened visa conditions for a whole host of countries, not sure if US is included.

a lot of people are amazed when they're there and realise that their media has been lying to them.

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u/This_Possession8867 41m ago

There is a massive difference between living in a country as a countryman or being a tourist. I was in USSR and tour buses would come in and under the tour buses they brought food that you couldn’t obtain in the USSR. People would have these unbelievable dining experiences never knowing no one in USSR could buy these foods for any price. I literally dealt on the black market meeting people in back alleyways just to get cans of peas for instance. So I think in China, you are missing out on the fact how many factory workers there are housed 6 to a tiny room. Work long hours to send pennies back to parents. Also they have serious polluting issues. My experience in USSR was never viewed by visitors and they were shown what the state allows. You as a visitor will never see the inside of Chinese sweat shops, modern day slavery. But we all enjoy these very low prices at their expense. You sound clueless and a tourist eye view. Do you remember how they were locked up & even arrested during Covid for speaking about it? Many examples but pretend your visit wasn’t a tourist vacation with blinders on?

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u/spunkychickpea 14h ago

They know the WTO isn’t going to do shit. They just want the international community to see that they’re exhausting every peaceful option before they go all “mergers and acquisitions” on us.

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u/catballou1962 14h ago

It is just a way to proceed to legal recourse. You generally first have to “exhaust administrative remedies.”

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u/4UNN 14h ago

Better business bureau is actually taken seriously by hella companies, they pretty much automatically escalate complaints coming from BBB over direct customer complaints

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u/UrbanPugEsq 14h ago

But they can…

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u/Glad-Veterinarian365 13h ago

Angie’s List

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u/EmmEnnEff 10h ago

The WTO can't do shit, but following the 'proper' process makes them look like the adults in the room, and gives a legal grounding for what they are doing.

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u/lick_it 8h ago

Not recognising us patents?

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u/Apollo555 15h ago

WTO sounds too much like WHO for Trump

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u/magnomagna 12h ago

Trump: "W what O, now? Let's tariff that country."

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u/takenorinvalid 15h ago

So, it looks like China filed a similar complaint with the WTO in 2018.

It took the WTO until 2020 to make a ruling, at which point it ruled that China was correct that the US had violated the GATT 1994 agreement.

The consequences?

The Panel pointed out that its role was not to draw any legal conclusions or make recommendations on any matters other than those it had been specifically tasked to deal with. ... The Panel expressed its encouragement to the parties to continue to work for a mutually agreed solution to the matters raised in the dispute.

Oh, shit. The US was politely encouraged to work toward a mutually-agreed solution!

Anyway, the US appealed and nothing has happened in the 5 years since.

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u/KilluaZaol 14h ago

The Appellate Body of the WTO is paralysed because there are no more judges, because the US had to agree to the appointment of a judge and they haven't. This has been true for the last 10 years I think, so now all the AB judges have gone into retirement and the body can't rule anything anymore, all because the US have never consented to no judges being appointed.

I want to make clear that these are just facts, I'm not being political. In fact, both Trump and Biden kept up with this policy of fucking with the WTO functioning.

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u/Midair_fart 10h ago

I want to make clear that these are just facts, I’m not being political. In fact, both Trump and Biden kept up with this policy of fucking with the WTO functioning.

This! Everything that Trump did in his first term with his economic war, has been continued and even increased under Biden. Now that Trump is back, he‘s trying to be even tougher on China than Biden.

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u/BD_South 14h ago

It basically took them two years to provide a fact check.

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u/Strong_Brick_9703 14h ago

Chinese aim here is not to get some retribution, but to show how fake the current system is. It's a naked king situation.

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u/Big-Uzi-Hert 13h ago

US had violated the GYATT 1994 agreement*

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u/This_Possession8867 37m ago

Look how long the process is, years and years and they didn’t resolve anything.

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u/intrigue_investor 15h ago

The Chinese are smart, they're doing this in part to force the US to effectively abandon the WTO when they reject the dispute decision (or row back on the tariffs and look weak)

All part of reducing US hegemony (already on the decline pre Trump)

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u/Rustic_gan123 14h ago

WTO unable to rule due to lack of appellate judges

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u/intrigue_investor 14h ago

they don't need judges, they've been relying on panel rulings since "he" tried to put the kibosh on the WTO last time he was in power

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u/Rustic_gan123 14h ago

Until the WTO can make and implement decisions, it is useless.

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u/MikeGundy 14h ago

US might abandon the WTO but it isn’t gonna be because of a Chinese complaint lmao

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u/Ok_Cartoonist1167 9h ago

Chinas been manipulating the living shit out of their currency for decades to keep imports low and money in their economy tight. Last country i want to hear complaining about “unfair” lmao

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u/This_Possession8867 35m ago

Exactly as they literally enslave workers forced to live, work and eat in sq ft space less than a prisoner gets for pennies to send back to elderly parents.

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u/aeternus_hypertrophy 12h ago

This is to test who gets behind the WTO. If nobody does and it's proven irrelevant (after years of US pushing for that) then China is pretty unrestricted if it wanted to do something like say....dumping a load of treasury bonds.

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u/BigBritches619 14h ago

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u/DrBix 9h ago

I'd suspect AI, but it's too grotesque to be AI.

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u/FenrirApalis 13h ago

Fuck I regret not getting enough puts

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u/Insciuspetra 14h ago

I miss thinking we were the good guys.

Does Obama still have his contact list?

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u/Zib559 7h ago

The US never was

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u/Insciuspetra 7h ago

True.

~

However, world leaders and their citizens preferred Obama over Trump.

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u/This_Possession8867 34m ago

Exactly but who is. Government corruption everywhere.

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u/Three_Licks 14h ago

Yeah good luck with that. The U.S. is now a rogue state.

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u/_Sadism_ 14h ago

"now" lol. US has been a rogue state for decades now

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u/loulan 13h ago

If you don't see that it has become exponentially worse since the second coming of the orange, I don't know what to tell you.

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u/RKU69 6h ago

Its an accelerating trend that comes from the same fundamental causes - an incredibly arrogant, self-interested, but stupid ruling class with an enormous amount of power, but no real ideas or vision

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u/Glass_Item_4968 15h ago

IIRC the WTO does not have enough judges seated to even have a hearing.

Edit:

CHATGPT- “Yes, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body currently lacks any serving judges, rendering it non-functional. This situation arose because the United States has been blocking the appointment of new judges since 2017, citing concerns about the body’s overreach and judicial activism. By December 2019, the Appellate Body fell below the required quorum of three members needed to hear appeals, effectively paralyzing its operations. As of April 2025, all seven seats remain vacant, and the dispute settlement system’s appellate function is inoperative. “

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u/Desperate-Hearing-55 13h ago

US is gonna withdraw from WTO. So it wont matter.

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u/rmp20002000 14h ago

Trump is just going to make America leave the WTO

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u/Fresh_Internal_6085 13h ago

Now that the Chinese have done it, hopefully they give the penguins some pointers.

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u/BRICS_Powerhouse 4h ago

Lol bratha, all these fake orgs like WTO, UN and others only work if it benefits the US. Forget about it

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u/DirtyFatB0Y Cleany Teany Weany 12h ago

So they complained about retaliatory tariffs, RETALIATED WITH TARIFFS, and are now crying about the use of tariffs.

Got it.

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u/Delam2 9h ago

I mean everyone loses either way but you cant expect them to just bend over and take it?

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u/HorrorCollege5973 8h ago

So the US should just bend over and take the Chinese tariffs? Many countries place tariffs on the US to encourage internal manufacturing. But the US doing it is crossing a line?

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u/DirtyFatB0Y Cleany Teany Weany 6h ago

Yea man. It’s pretty wild.

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u/Gh0StDawGG 15h ago

Huwwy up and buy!!!

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u/What_the_8 14h ago

Trump tariffs are nuts but China can fuck off with the “it’s not fair” shit, currency manipulating IP stealing fucks.

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u/badtrader 8h ago

dont forget they have been abusing WTO for years by claiming "developing nation" status, while leading the world in advanced manufacturing in many areas LMAO

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u/AnonymousLoner1 PAPER TRADING COMPETITION WINNER 11h ago

Spoiler alert: They learned currency manipulation from us, after what we did to Japan when it got "too" competitive in the "free" market.

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u/peeved-penguin 2h ago

you wanna move manufacturing to china and use their cheap labour to pay them peanuts and you think they don't get any perks in return?!

china is subsidising your cushy western lifestyles through their cut in pay and hard work.

you use and copy china has invented such as: compass, abacus, gunpowder, fireworks, silk, ceramics (other name china), paper, etc...

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u/cardboardbob99 13h ago

seriously.. the blankets tariffs are insane and brain dead, but if any country deserved them, China did

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u/anonymous9828 8h ago

logic similarly applies then to the US and its NSA hacking/stealing companies

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u/blankarage 12h ago

hey guys what about that!

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u/anonymous9828 8h ago

currency manipulating

are you living under a rock, China and Japan are actually trying to prop up the values of their currencies right now, not devaluing them as people accuse

IP stealing

all while the NSA hacks companies around the world to steal their IP

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u/Pin_ups 14h ago

Wynyng.

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u/HungryHashMastr 12h ago

China can’t even honor trademarks and patents. They can fuk off

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u/kusionlion 13h ago

WTO can’t do anything.

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u/WeAreAllFooked 12h ago

This is why Donald didn't violate what's in the USMCA trade agreement. If he violated it Mexico and Canada can penalize the US through the WTO, or impose higher tariffs than allowed under USMCA to an equivalent effect in the same sector as the measure or conduct found to be USMCA-inconsistent.

For example. If Donald decided to slap a 30% tariff on scrap steel imported to the US, Canada could levy a 30% tariff on energy exports used by American factories that recycle the scrap steel.

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u/pimanac 11h ago

Oh no! Not THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION!

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u/Ace95Archer 11h ago

What can WTO do? They should say thank you for not having tariffs on them.

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u/Xpmonkey 11h ago

China don’t know. That WTO is in pocket.

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u/johndsmits 10h ago

Since the techbros are somewhat behind these antics, I realized game theory tactics are now in effect. Which one being used is the question.

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u/DrBix 9h ago

It's like Chiner is trying hard to do what's best for the average American Consumer. Who'da thunk it :D.

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u/peeved-penguin 2h ago

chiner?

like diner?

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u/pointycakes 8h ago

Serious question: why doesn’t China just ban Tesla? It makes up a third of Tesla sales and would hit home close to Trump. They also have multiple domestic manufacturers that could take their place?

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u/jetatx 7h ago

China is hurting more than the US. Their economy was already in the cooker for sometime.

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u/eepos96 6h ago

Why don't rest of the world do the same?

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u/Pikeman212a6c 6h ago

I’m sure the lack of quorum will get right on that.

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u/pekak62 4h ago

Is this not an air sandwich as the USA has pulled out of the WTO? Correct me if I'm wrong.

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u/csonakhaz 4h ago

that will show `em!!!!1111

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u/Ok_Juggernaut1588 4h ago

If only they were as powerful as the Trade Federation in the Phantom Menace.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 3h ago

Wait... so they can hit us with tariffs, but we're not allowed?

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u/superbigjoe007 3h ago

US leaders, probably: "WE AM THE WTO!"

This will be just as effective as the WHO forcing mandates on the world 🙃🙃🙃

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u/liberalindianguy 2h ago

This is as good as doing nothing.

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u/crimeo 1h ago

Oh shit, calls on fancy stationary used to draft sternly written letters!

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u/stickybond009 1h ago

Cry baby whining to momma

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u/stickybond009 1h ago

These are just reciprocal tariffs.. WTO can't do much

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u/Corner_Post 14h ago

Don’t like the tariff policy but bit rich of China complaining about tariffs being imposed on them when they have done all sorts of dodgy practices in the past like banning imports of certain products (using dodgy/dubious reasons) to put pressure on other countries.

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u/shawnington 8h ago

or requiring IP transfer

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u/Over_Lawfulness2889 14h ago

I thinknthey are Tarrified

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u/Akal3 12h ago

Underrated comment

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u/Chance_Airline_4861 13h ago

Well played, China knows it doesn't matter but this way they can say that we played by the rulebook 

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u/Adrian12094 6h ago

ah, now china cares about unfair trade practices, huh?