From June 1, Beijing will charge a new 25% tariff on almost 2,500 items, from food and consumer goods to chemicals and machinery. Other products will soon incur a 20% or 10% additional levy.

This is China’s official retaliation to America’s decision to hike its tariff on $200bn of Chinese-made products to 25% last Friday.

The list of nearly 2,500 US products that will now incur a 25% tariff when sold to China is long, and varied (and online here, in Mandarin).

It includes food products, such as meat, honey, bamboo, frozen peas and spinach, roasted coffee, green teas, various oils, fruit juice and stuffed pasta.

Alcoholic drinks such as beer, wine and gin are also on the list.

Many chemicals are listed, as is manufacturing equipment such as vacuum moulding, wire-drawing and cable-making machines.

On the consumer side, televisions, headphones, DVD players, cameras, telescopes, alarm clocks, instruments such as pianos, buttons, and fishing rods will now be much pricier.

There’s also a new 20% tariff list covering over 1,000 products.

This 20% tariff will hit also hit food (frozen strawberries, shelled peanuts), chemicals, books, some steel products, copper pipes, batteries and power supplies, photography equipment, brushes….. and consumer products such as golf clubs, bowling pins, roller skates, pens, pencils and antiques.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2019/may/13/trade-war-investors-china-retaliation-us-tariffs-growth-stock-markets-business-live?page=with:block-5cd970028f08d2b474ebad04#block-5cd970028f08d2b474ebad04

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If we really wanted to analyze this we would break down how many of these products we actually send them now. I bet the quantity is so small, but they were able to still put it on the list, easy for optics.