The USA will postpone the introduction of high punitive tariffs against various Chinese imports by at least two weeks, the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced on Tuesday. These include electric cars and their batteries, computer chips, and medical products. The tariffs originally should have come into force on Thursday (August 1). According to the USTR, however, it still has around 1,100 comments that need to be processed. These apparently include complaints from affected industries.