Several chemicals are included in the $200bn worth of tariffs that the US may impose on Chinese imports in the latest escalation of the trade war between the two countries.
The US will hold hearings on 20-23 August before imposing a 10% duty on the items in the list.
The list is massive, exceeding 6,000 products
It includes several industrial chemicals such as olefins, aromatics, alcohols, acetyls, acrylics, anhydrides, glycols and glycol ethers.
Nitrogen fertilizers and surfactants are included as well as caustic soda and titanium dioxide (TiO2).
While elastomers are listed, no polyolefins were included.
A full list can be found here.
For many products like ethane, none are imported by the US. Still, the inclusion of so many chemical products on the US list shows that the sector is becoming increasingly exposed to the trade war.
The US has already imposed 25% tariffs on several Chinese products, most of which are machines and industrial tools.
China responded with its own set of retaliatory tariffs on US products, which targets soybeans and other agricultural goods.
The US could move forward on a second set of tariffs on $16bn worth of goods, many of which are polyolefins and other polymers.
China responded with its own second set of tariffs that also targets several polymers.
The latest tariffs from the US would be on top of all of the other duties that have been adopted or imposed.
> View the full list of industrial chemicals and fertilizers covered by the $200bn worth of proposed tariffs on the ICIS website
By Al Greenwood
Source: ICIS News
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