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US tariff action on China would hit other EMs too

Media reports suggest that the US is planning to impose more extensive tariffs on China. This could have a significant knock-on impact for a number of economies in Emerging Asia (Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Korea) – as well as for some industrial metal producing EMs (South Africa and Chile) – which are dependent on intermediate good exports to China.

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