US President Donald Trump says he will impose additional tariffs on China, from Tuesday, if Beijing does not withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariffs on the US.

The additional tariffs on Beijing would be of 50%, Trump says.

As a reminder, China announced on Friday that it would be imposing such tariffs on Washington after the White House said that from 9 April it’d put 34% levies on all goods from Beijing.

  • rando895@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    They can definitely sell them elsewhere, and if companies threaten to abandon ship, while I am just hypothesizing here, China likely has a legal way to seize the factories to prevent the loss of productive capacity.