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美国贸易代表办美东时间14日凌晨5点宣布，根据美国1974年《贸易法》第301条，对从中国进口的价值180亿美元的钢和铝、半导体、电动汽车、电池、光伏电池、船岸起重机、关键矿产、医疗产品等商品提高关税。

二 |     New Delhi, Oct 15 (UNI) In a major setback to former Delhi University Professor, GN Saibaba and five others, the Supreme Court on Saturday suspended the order of the Bombay High Court which acquitted him under UAPA for alleged Maoist link.

The Supreme Court also refused the plea of Saibaba that he should be allowed to come out of jail and be put under house arrest and other restrictions as the court put on him. It asked Saibaba to file application for bail.

A Special bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice M R Shah and also comprising Justice Bela M Trivedi, passed the order, after hearing the submissions and arguments made by the Solicitor General (SG) Tushar Mehta for the Maharashtra Government and senior lawyer R Basant for Saibaba.

The Supreme Court, however, said it will hear the case in details, later on, keeping in view the sensitivity of the case.

Basant pleaded to the Supreme Court that Saibaba is 55-year-old and is wheelchair bound with 90 percent disability and was not involved in activity of waging war against the country as alleged by the Maharashtra government.

Basant said the SG alleged that he (Saibaba) was the brain behind it, but there is nothing to show his involvement.

To this, Justice Shah observed, "So far as terrorists or Maoists activities are concerned, the connection is more dangerous. Direct involvement is not necessary."

Justice Shah, said, this on the context of not of his involvement by Basant, and said, I said this not with respect to this specific case.

Further elaborating on the case, Basant said he was arrested in 2015, for over 7 years he has been under custody, except for a brief period of two times, where he was given bail on medical grounds.

"Generally in terrorists and Maoists activities, indirect involvement is more important than physical strength. Direct involvement may not be required," Justice Shah, leading the bench, said and dismissed the relief of acquittal granted by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court to Saibaba and others.

The SG Mehta, vehemently opposed the plea of Saibaba to put him under house arrest and not in jail and told the Supreme Court that now-a-days, such requests are being frequently made by "urban naxals" and the court should not allow such kind of pleas.

The Supreme Court asked Saibaba, to file appropriate application for bail. It also asked him to file his response on the appeal filed by the Maharashtra government seeking to cancel the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court, and fixed the matter for further hearing after December 8, 2022.

"The facts are very very disturbing , supporting call for arms in Jammu and Kashmir, supporting overthrowing Parliament, arranging meetings with Naxalites, attacking our security forces etc," Mehta told the Supreme Court and seeking a direction to stay yesterday's Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court's order.

"There is no criminal antecedents whatsoever for him (Saibaba). He is leading a respectable life, may be ideologically inclined. There is nothing to show his involvement in any kind of illegal and or terror activities," Basant told the Supreme Court.

Basant, for Saibaba, further pleaded to the Supreme Court that he is a person aged 55 years. He is married person with family, 23 year old unmarried daughter. He is having 90 per cent disability and Paraplegic. He is having multiple other ailments which are judicially accepted and confined to my wheel chair.

SG Mehta said there are 6 accused. As far as accused number 6 (Saibaba) is concerned, he did not raise the ground of sanction at trial and was raised at the appellate stage.

"The purpose of sanction is to ensure at threshold that a person is not put to vexatious trial. This is not a vexatious trial. If after a full fledged trial persons are found guilty, there is no vexatious trial," Mehta said.

UNI SM SY SHK1625。

中评社报道，这意味着拜登政府在经历两年的评估之后，非但没有去除特朗普时期对几乎全部中国输美五千多亿美元商品加征的不同程度关税，还正式发动了新的对华贸易战，而且矛头直指新兴和关键产业链。

根据白宫发布的清单，针对中国出口美国的不同商品加征关税如下：

某些钢铁和铝产品的关税税率将在2024年从0－7.5%提高到25%；

到2025年，半导体关税税率将从25%提高到50%；

电动汽车关税税率将在2024年从25%提高到100%；

锂离子电池及其零部件的关税税率将在2024年从7.5%提高到25%；

天然石墨和永磁体以及某些关键矿产到2026年关税税率从0提高到25%；

2024年光伏电池的关税税率将从25%提高到50%；

2024年船岸起重机关税税率将从0%提高到25%；

2024年，注射器和针头关税税率将从0%提高到50%。某些个人防护装备（PPE），包括某些呼吸器和口罩，关税税率将从0－7.5%提高到25%，橡胶医用和外科手套的关税将从7.5%提高到2026年的25%。

从这些加税清单可以看出，拜登政府对钢铁和铝产品、电动汽车、太阳能电池的加税冲动尤其迫切。其中可以折射出若干倾向和意涵，具体且听下回分解。

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