Trump Ally Urges Duties on Goods Shipped Via China’s Peru Port
- Adviser says 60% tariff should apply to all Chancay shipments
- Xi helped inaugurate the new facility north of Lima last week
The Port of Chancay, which is 60% owned by the Chinese state-owned company Cosco Shipping Ports and 40% by the Peruvian company Volcan Compania Minera.
Photographer: Hidalgo Calatayud Espinoza/picture alliance/Getty Images
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A veteran adviser to Donald Trump is proposing that the 60% tariffs that the President-elect has vowed to impose on Chinese goods also apply to goods from any country that pass through a new port that Beijing has built in Peru.