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Shares of U.S. exporters tumble as China retaliates on tariffs

Wed, 04th Apr 2018 14:33

April 4 (Reuters) - Shares in U.S. exporters of everythingfrom food to planes were hammered on Wednesday after Chinaretaliated against the Trump administration's tariff plans witha list of duties on key U.S. imports including soybeans, planes,cars, beef and chemicals.

China hit back against U.S. President Donald Trump's plansto impose tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods with similartariffs on U.S. goods even as Trump said the country is "not ina trade war with China."

Shares in U.S. aerospace giant Boeing Co fell 5.5percent in early trade while agricultural machinery maker Deere& Co fell 5.6 percent. Soybean exporter Archer DanielsMidland Co was down 1.2 percent while anotheragribusiness Bunge Ltd fell 1 percent.

"So the fear of this ‘dispute’ turning into an all-out ‘war’is once again on the front burner," said Ken Polcari, directorof the NYSE floor division at O’Neil Securities in New York.

Investors in U.S. technology companies were rattled sincethat sector has the biggest revenue exposure to China. UniversalDisplay was down 3.7 percent. Apple Inc fell1.6 percent.

Car maker General Motors Co was down 1.8 percentwhile Ford Motor Co was off 2 percent and Tesla Incfell 4.3 percent.

Chemical provider Chemours Co shed 2.9 percent whileDowDuPont Inc dropped 3 percent.(Reporting by Sinead Carew, Lewis Krauskopf and CharlesMikolajczak in New York, Taenaz Shakir in BengaluruEditing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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