China urges US to show sincerity, correct behaviour in trade actions

Trump also got more pushback on his tariff plans from the U.S. Congress on Wednesday as a bipartisan group of senators, led by Republican Rob Portman of Ohio, launched new legislation that would scale back the president's power to impose tariffs for national security reasons under a Cold War-era trade law.

BEIJING: China hopes the United States will show sincerity and take steps to correct its behaviour, its commerce ministry said yesterday, after both countries slapped new tariffs on each other’s goods this week in an escalating trade war.

China added US$60bil of US products to its import tariff list on Tuesday to hit back at US duties on US$200bil of Chinese goods that go into effect from Sept 24.