<h1>Retaliatory tariffs target US agricultural exports, imposing additional levies with transit exemptions and market consequences.</h1> China imposed additional 15% levies on specified US agricultural commodities as a retaliatory tariff response to earlier US tariff increases, including an exemption for goods in transit until a stated date; the measure is situated amid concurrent US tariff escalations on metals and proposals for reciprocal tariffs, and is likely to affect exporters, supply chains and domestic policy responses for affected producers.