CHINA slapped a 36 per cent tariff on nylon imports last week as part of its continued retaliation against the Obama administration's 25 to 35 per cent duties imposed on its tyre imports from China.
October 26, 2009 - China has also started anti-dumping investigations on US chicken and car parts imports.
They are minor disturbances in the vast flow of trade between the two countries, but are a sign of things to come if, as seems likely, Asia's recovery proceeds much more rapidly than those of the US and Europe.
The unequal pace of recovery is already making global imbalances worse and introducing new tensions to global relations.......
