The levies of 10 and 15 percent on American agricultural products, which also include meat, grains and cotton, were imposed after US President Donald Trump raised a blanket tariff on all Chinese goods to 20 percent last week.
“If prices go up, folks won’t eat imported stuff,“ a fruit seller, surnamed Shi, told AFP.
Shi's offerings -- from bananas and strawberries to durian and mangosteen -- come from all around the world, but he said fruit grown within China typically sells better.
Shi said he might sell fewer US varieties while offering more options from other countries, such as Thailand and Malaysia.
He Yulian, who was visiting her daughter in Beijing, said she was indifferent about the trade war.
“For regular folks, if we can tell something is imported from the United States, we can try to buy less of it -- or not at all,“ the 65-year-old from Shanxi said.
However, He said that for certain products such as milk and infant formula, she preferred imports to their Chinese versions.
One of the most notorious involved milk adulterated with the chemical melamine, which killed six infants and poisoned hundreds of thousands of others in 2008.
In 2022, pork-processing giant Henan Shuanghui apologised after unhygienic work practices such as packaging meat that had dropped on the floor were exposed.
Beijing's tariffs took effect on Monday, although they will not apply to goods that left before March 10 as long as they arrive in China by April 12.
In the short term, though, he acknowledged that everyday budgets might be hit.
“Indeed, it’s regular people who suffer the most.”
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