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Secretario de comercio: las tarifas impuestas por China son el 0.3% del PBI de USA.
Trump: no estamos en una guerra comercial con China, esa la perdimos hace mucho
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: China tariffs amount to 0.3% of US GDP
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross spoke Wednesday in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box."
Earlier Wednesday, China announced additional tariffs on 106 U.S. products, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump unveiled a list of Chinese imports that his administration aims to target as part of a crackdown on what he deems unfair trade practices.
The moves sent Dow futures plunging in Wednesday's premarket.
China said the 25 percent levy on U.S. imports includes products such as soybeans, cars and whiskey. The tariffs will likely increase concerns of a tit-for-tat trade war between the United States and China provoked by Trump's announced levies on imports of steel and aluminum early last month.
In a tweet early Wednesday, President Trump said the U.S. is "not in a trade war with China," adding "that war was lost many years ago by the foolish, or incompetent, people who represented the U.S."
The Commerce Department recommended imposing heavy tariffs or quotas on foreign producers of steel and aluminum in February in the interest of national security. Ross said at the time that steel is important to U.S. national security and that current import flows are adversely affecting the steel industry.
Shortly after Trump announced the tariffs, Ross told CNBC the plan for tariffs of 25 percent on imported steel and 10 percent on aluminum products is"no big deal." He used cans of Campbell's Soup and Coca-Cola to stress his point about what he called insignificant price increases from Trump's tariffs.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
—CNBC's Sam Meredith contributed to this report.