In retaliation for the Trump administration's decision Friday to hike import tariffs on millions of dollars worth of Chinese exports to the US market, China said Monday it is imposing higher tariffs on a range of US goods.

Ignoring warnings from President Trump not to retaliate, China’s finance ministry said it plans to set import tariffs ranging from 5 percent to 25 percent on 5,140 US products on a target list worth about $60 billion. It said the tariffs will take effect on June 1, according to Reuters.

Last August, China announced a $60 billion (€51.7 billion) list of US goods that include smoked salmon and fish oil for retaliation if Trump proceeded to more than double his own proposed tariffs on $200 billion (€172.5 billion) worth of Chinese goods.

The ongoing trade war escalated on Friday after Trump, as promised, hiked tariffs on $200 billion (€177.9 billion) worth of Chinese imports, claiming China had reneged on earlier commitments made during months of trade negotiations, said the Reuters report.

The products on the list, most of which had a 10 percent tariff to enter the United States, will now face tariffs of 25 percent.

The list includes whole fresh or chilled trout and Pacific salmon, whole frozen sockeye salmon, frozen Atlantic salmon, Alaska pollock, lobster products, coldwater shrimp both shell-on cooked, or uncooked, crabmeat and live crab, fresh or chilled, rock lobster, scallops, shell-on and shell-off, including queen scallops, fresh or chilled.

Other fish include sea bream and bass, other crustaceans include mussels, abalone, clams and cockles, and cephalopods include squid, cuttlefish, and octopus products.

You can read the full list here.

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