trade war

基本解释

As in their trade meeting in Hangzhou last month, China and the U.S. pledged to work together to avoid a trade war as pressure builds in both countries' export sectors.
正如雙方上月在杭州的貿易會談一樣，儅時中美保証會共同避免由於兩國出口部門施壓而造成的貿易戰。
Surplus countries will need to accommodate these essential adjustments through expansions in demand, relative to potential supply. In a trade war, surplus countries have most to lose.
盈餘國由於供應有保証不得已衹能通過擴大內需去適應有必要的調整，打貿易戰的話損失慘重。
They apply, after all, only to imports worth a couple of billion dollars last year, hardly the stuff of a great trade war.
雖然如此，與去年相比，也僅僅適用於幾十億美元的進口，根本談不上貿易大戰。

China also asked the World Trade Organization to intervene, to avoid a trade war.
Some warn the measures could trigger a trade war. Others say they represent more normal trade relations.
Trade war?In September, Washington slapped tariffs on tire imports from China, and just last week, imposed new duties on the import of a key Chinese steel product to the United States.

This is bad economics: both China and America would lose enormously from a trade war.
ECONOMIST: China and America