China said it started a one-year anti-subsidy investigation into grain sorghum imported from the U.S., further fuelling trade tensions between the world’s two biggest economies.
“The surging amount of imports from the U.S. since 2013 has dragged down market prices, damaging China’s grain sorghum sector,” Wang Hejun, chief of the ministry’s trade remedy. The latest tiff comes just days after Trump slapped tariffs on imported solar panels and washing machines, which Beijing called a “misuse” of trade measures.
Beijing has launched an anti-dumping investigation into sorghum (also known aas great millet) imports from the United States, spurring worries of a looming tit-for-tat trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. China is the US’ largest buyer of crops like sorghum and soybeans, and tariffs on their import would hurt American farmers.
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