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By Sunday Ani
The Goods Made-in-China Importers Association (GMIA), a trade and commerce association in Nigeria, has called on the United States, US government to withdraw the 34 percent tariffs imposed on Chinese goods, which has already attracted a retaliatory measure from China.
A statement by the chairman, Charles Udeogaranya, appealed to the US government to drop the 34 percent tariffs against China, for the common economic good of the global market.
He emphasised that reversing the tariff would also de-escalate chances of global economic recession, which leaves global economy struggling and African nations’ economy worse off.
Udeogaranya posited that the world economy was yet to recover fully from the economic recession caused by COVID-19 lockdown, pleading that the US should not provoke another recession with trade wars led by provocative high tariffs.
“We strongly believe that China and the US should be the best of friends for the common economic gains and peaceful world, but tariffs and disrespect or undermining nation’s territorial integrity as often breached by the US on Taiwan, has no place in these,” the statement said.
