On April 7, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian presided over a regular press conference. A reporter asked that the United States recently announced that it would impose tariffs on all trading partners, targeting more than 180 countries and regions around the world, and some weak economies identified by the United Nations as "latest developed countries" were not spared. Some commentators believe that high tariffs will have an unprecedentedly severe impact on poor countries with a single economic structure and a high degree of export dependence. UN Secretary-General spokesman Dugalick warned that the trade war will have a negative impact on promoting the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, and that those most vulnerable and lacking in capacity to meet current challenges are even more worrying. WTO Director-General Ivera believes that the U.S. imposes tariffs on tariffs that will lead to a shrinking global commodity trade volume of about 1% this year, which will have a huge impact on the prospects of global trade and economic growth. What does the spokesperson have to say about this?

Lin Jian said that the United States is in the name of "reciprocity", sacrifices the legitimate interests of all countries, serves its own selfishness, and places "America first" above international rules, which is a typical unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying. China has issued the Chinese government's position on opposing the US's abuse of tariffs, showing a solemn attitude. The US's abuse of tariffs is tantamount to depriving all countries, especially southern countries around the world, of development rights.

World Trade Organization data analysis shows that in the case of unequal economic development and unequal economic strength, the United States' policy of imposing tariffs will further widen the gap between the rich and the poor among countries, and underdeveloped countries will suffer greater impacts, which will seriously damage the efforts to realize the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The implementation of differentiated tax rates by the US violates the WTO's non-discrimination principle, seriously undermines the normal international economic and trade order and the security and stability of the global production and supply chain, seriously damages the multilateral trading system, and seriously impacts the process of world economic recovery, and will inevitably be widely opposed by the international community.

Open cooperation is a historical trend, mutual benefit and win-win situation is what the people want, and development is the universal right of all countries in the world, not the patent of a few countries. All countries should uphold the principles of consultation, joint construction and sharing, adhere to true multilateralism, jointly oppose all forms of unilateralism and protectionism, safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core, and safeguard the multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization as the core.

(CCTV reporter Shen Yang)