The US administration on Tuesday proposed a list of products to be subject to additional tariffs, covering Chinese exports worth 50 billion US dollars with a suggested tariff rate of 25 percent.
The US attorney for the western district of Texas, John Bash, said federal authorities were treating the massacre as a case of domestic terrorism.
The US government has threatened 25 percent duties on 0 billion worth of Chinese imports.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported five confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, with 68 tests coming back negative. The CDC has issued a Level 3 travel warning, urging American citizens to avoid all nonessential travel to China.
The US Navy has been conducting an investigation into the situation on USS Theodore Roosevelt. A Pentagon official has also announced that it would also investigate the Navy's response to the pandemic on its ships.
The United States is talking with the European Union on the new steel and aluminum tariffs while indicating there is no change so far on the China front.
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The United States remains the nation hit the worst by the pandemic, with the world's highest caseload and death toll, accounting for more than 18 percent of the global deaths.
The US State Department said on Thursday that it would immediately impose sanctions on the equipment development department of the Chinese military and its director, Li Shangfu, for engaging in "significant transactions" with Rosoboronexport, Russia's main arms exporter, according to Reuters.The United States said China's armed forces had violated the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, a US law imposing sanctions in part to punish Moscow for activities including what the US State Department called Russia's "interference" in US elections.
The US also threatened tariffs on 0 billion worth of Chinese imports following its Section 301 investigation of China's intellectual property policies and practices. In return, China has proposed retaliatory measures and vowed to fight to the end.
The US government has flown about 800 people from Hubei province, placing them under 14-day quarantine at US military bases.