Commercial War: China is preparing a blacklist of companies in response to the United States

The Ministry of Commerce today announced the creation of this list, which will include companies, organizations and foreigners.

The establishment of this blacklist comes just two weeks after Washington included the Huawei technology company, which it accuses of constituting a danger to national security, on a list of companies and people prohibited from access. to American technology.

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has not specified what would happen to the companies on this list, although it has announced that "specific measures will be announced in the near future", reported EFE press agency.

The spokesman of the institution, Gao FengHe explained that Entities or persons that "do not comply with the rules of the market, do not respect the spirit of contracts, do not impose a blockade or confiscate Chinese companies for non-commercial purposes, will be included in the list, which seriously affects their rights and legitimate interests ".

Beijing believes that with this measure, it "protects international economic and trade rules and the multilateral trading system" and "opposes unilateralism and trade protectionism".

In recent days, China has threatened the United States through the official press and ministers' spokespersons of various "countermeasures" and retaliation for the temporary break-up of negotiations to settle the dispute. commercial war.