
WASHINGTON, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Although U.S. technology product exports to China increased in 2018, the escalating trade tensions between the two countries may drag down the U.S. economic growth and harm U.S. manufacturers, an industry report released on Tuesday showed.
The U.S. technology product exports to China increased by 4.9 percent to 17.9 billion U.S. dollars in 2018, and the U.S. technology services to China increased by 3.9 percent to 2.2 billion dollars in 2017, according to the report by Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), a leading trade association for the global technology industry.
However, the U.S.-China trade dispute has resulted in tariffs on tech product imports from China increasing fivefold from 2017 to 2018, said Stefanie Holland, vice president for federal and global policy of the association.
"Should a 25-percent tariff rate apply to all tech product imports the costs could run into the tens of billions of dollars," said Holland.
In the latest flare-up of U.S.-China trade tensions, Washington increased additional tariffs on 200 billion U.S. dollars' worth of Chinese imports from 10 percent to 25 percent earlier this month, and threatened to raise tariffs on more Chinese imports.
In response, China has announced that it will raise additional tariffs on a range of U.S. imports from June 1, and "will fight to the end."
Calling on the United States and China to reach a deal, Holland said barriers to trade do not foster long-term economic growth and will continue to negatively impact the products that are designed, developed and manufactured in the United States.
The U.S. technology exports directly supported an estimated 858,000 American jobs in 2017, according to the report. A previous report from CompTIA said that there were more than 11.8 million people with technology jobs in the United States in 2018.
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