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.
正如双方上月在杭州的贸易会谈一样，当时中美保证会共同避免由于两国出口部门施压而造成的贸易战。
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.
盈余国由于供应有保证不得已只能通过扩大内需去适应有必要的调整，打贸易战的话损失惨重。
They apply, after all, only to imports worth a couple of billion dollars last year, hardly the stuff of a great trade war.
虽然如此，与去年相比，也仅仅适用于几十亿美元的进口，根本谈不上贸易大战。

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