China Opens Inquiry Into U.S. Sorghum as Trade Tensions Worsen<br />The United States exported about 4.8 million tons of sorghum to China in 2017, worth about $1 billion, accounting<br />for nearly all of China’s imports of the grain last year, according to Chinese customs data.<br />He has labeled the challenges posed by the Chinese economy as a threat to United States national security<br />and opened separate trade investigations related to Chinese steel and aluminum imports and into whether Chinese stole intellectual property.<br />It came less than two weeks after the United States said it was imposing tariffs on solar panels and washing machines<br />that were aimed at curbing cheap imports from China and South Korea.<br />BEIJING — China has opened an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into sorghum imports from the United<br />States, the latest salvo in an escalating trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.<br />A United States business lobby group warned last week<br />that Chinese officials have threatened to retaliate against American companies if the Trump administration imposes tariffs, saying that agricultural and aircraft imports may be the most at risk
