trade war

基本解釋

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(mào)易會(huì)談一樣，當(dāng)時(shí)中美保證會(huì)共同避免由于兩國(guó)出口部門施壓而造成的貿(mào)易戰(zhàn)。
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.
盈余國(guó)由于供應(yīng)有保證不得已只能通過(guò)擴(kuò)大內(nèi)需去適應(yīng)有必要的調(diào)整，打貿(mào)易戰(zhàn)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，也僅僅適用于幾十億美元的進(jìn)口，根本談不上貿(mào)易大戰(zhàn)。

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