Asia's emerging markets: collateral damage in the trade wars

If trade tariffs lead to a slowdown in Chinese imports to the US, there would be knock-on effects for the emerging-market countries caught up in China’s supply chain.

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Trade tensions between the US and China are rising. On top of the tariffs that are already in place, the US plans to impose a 10% tariff on a further $200bn-worth of Chinese imports, which could be lifted to as much as 25%. China responded with plans to impose retaliatory tariffs on US imports worth $60bn, with levies ranging from 5% to 25% on everything from aircraft to soya bean oil, smoked beef, coffee and flour.

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Marina Gerner is an award-winning journalist and columnist who has written for the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the Economist, The Guardian and Standpoint magazine in the UK; the New York Observer in the US; and die Bild and Frankfurter Rundschau in Germany.

Marina is also an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business at their London campus, and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

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Marina is trilingual and lives in London.