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China to impose tariffs on some types of US single-mode optical fibre

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    25% ReliableLimited

  • Policy Leaning

    -14% Somewhat Left

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55% : The duties are anti-circumvention tariffs, designed to stop firms evading existing anti-dumping or countervailing duties.
52% : The commerce ministry said an investigation launched on March 4 had concluded that U.S. exporters were getting around anti-dumping measures aimed at dispersion unshifted single-mode optical fibre by shipping the type targeted by the new levies.
50% : BEIJING, Sept 4 (Reuters) - China will impose tariffs of up to 78.2% on certain U.S. optical fibre imports from September 4, the commerce ministry said in a statement a few minutes before midnight on Wednesday, accusing American producers of skirting anti-dumping measures.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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