On February 1, the United States government announced a 10 percent new tariff for Chinese imports under the pretext of combating the spread of opental. The next day, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated that China has been strongly exhausted and opposed this step and will take the necessary counter measures to defend its legitimate rights and interests.

In fact, the new customs tariff leads to reverse results not only when it comes to the efforts made in the production and distribution of fentanel but also for bilateral trade relations.

The United States is one of the largest consumer of the world -based drugs in the world, and in recent years, its misuse has exacerbated drug addiction and caused many deaths. The crisis has its roots in the patterns of the use of long -term opioids in the country, the nature that depends on profit for the manufacture of American drugs, insufficient public awareness and ineffective social governance.

China has some of the most difficult Counarnarcotics in the world. With the spirit of humanity and good faith, China has provided support for the United States’ response to this issue. At the request of the United States, China announced in 2019 the decision to officially identify fentanel materials related to the category. China has conducted collaboration with Counarcotics with the American side in areas such as drug -related substances, intelligence participation, and cooperation in individual cases.

However, the United States still insists on increasing this issue and accusing China of leading the Ventanil crisis. But the ram of the redemption of other countries for a local crisis will not make the problem disappear; Definitions certainly will not.

The unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States that weaken the risks in its anti -interior cooperation with China and may also force the transactions of the fentanels that must be made on the black market or through the third countries, making the application of the law more difficult.

Moreover, these unilateral sanctions impose violating the basic principles of the World Trade Organization (WTO), from which China and the United States are members. According to the general agreement of 1947 on definitions and trade (GATT)-SEOs to the World Health Organization-Trade is done in an unconscious manner.

However, the unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States on specific countries or institutions mainly constitute discriminatory treatment. This undermines a fair competition between members of the World Trade Organization and pose a potential threat to multilateral trade rules.

In addition, American practices violate the principle of national treatment established in Article Three of GATT. The article requires not to give imported products unsuccessful depending on its origin after entering the region of a World Trade Organization. The sanctions imposed by the United States directly may restrict the import of legal drugs or anti -chemicals, which leads to discrimination against goods imported from China.

The United States may seek to justify its tariff unilaterally by referring to threats of public health or national security, which can be used under GATT to justify definitions. But to summon the xx of Gatt (“public exceptions”) or the twenty -first article (“safety exceptions”), the United States must prove not only the importance and imposition of a customs tariff for public health or national security, but also the absence of less other other Trade in trade is effective. Factors such as the complexity of the fentanel crisis and local demand make it difficult to apply exceptions.

Repeated use of unilateral sanctions by the United States is not only violated with the basic rules of the World Trade Organization, but it also disrupts international trade and multilateral cooperation. In particular, the abuse of the exclusion conditions may lead to the pushing of other countries to question the justice and effectiveness of the World Trade Organization rules. Possible revenge in response to American definitions of other World Trade Organization can lead to a global commercial conflict and encourage the trend to divide the global trading system.

In the long run, US sanctions will be inversely affiliated at home. High tariffs will increase the prices of imported goods, which increases the burden on American consumers and reduces the competitiveness of American companies worldwide.

The United States needs to display and resolve its fentanel issue in an objective and rational manner instead of threatening other countries with arbitrary identification increases. Reducing domestic drug demand and enhancing law enforcement cooperation can be effective solutions to the fentanel crisis.

Trade and tariff wars have no winners. Pressing or threatening China is not the right way to participate, because my country will firmly defend its legitimate rights and interests.

Maintaining commercial relations between China and the United States is strong and serves the fundamental interests of both countries and both peoples, and benefit from global economic growth. China hopes that the United States will work with it to address fears through equal consultation, maintaining the positively obtained positive dynamics in the CONTERNARCONICS cooperation, and jointly encouraging fixed, proper and sustainable growth of bilateral and economic trade.

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