BEIJING — Planned U.S. tariffs on Chinese products will hurt companies around the globe as $20 billion of the $34 billion in goods targeted are made by foreign companies in China, Chinese officials said Thursday.
Those foreign companies include American-owned enterprises, according to Gao Feng, a spokesman for China’s Commerce Ministry.
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“The U.S. is firing shots to the world, including to itself,” Gao said at a media briefing Thursday.
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He didn’t directly answer a question about whether China would target U.S. firms in retaliation, but said the government would work to ease the impact of a trade war on foreign companies doing business in the country.
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