Trump Threatens China With Further 50% Tariff Over Retaliation
Washington DC, US: US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose an additional 50% tariff on imports from China unless the country rescinds its retaliatory tariffs on the United States by Tuesday. The new move comes on the third day of catastrophic market fell across the globe since Trump announced his trade war against Washington’s trading partners by imposing tariffs.
Trump administration announced a 34% tariff on Chinese imports. In return, Beijing announced a 34% tariff on US imports.
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Taking to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said that China enacted the retaliatory tariffs despite his “warning that any country that Retaliates against the US by issuing additional Tariffs” would be “immediately met with new and substantially higher Tariffs, over and above those initially set”.
“If China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th,” Trump wrote.
“Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated!” he added. “Negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately”.
On Monday, China’s US embassy said that it would not cave to pressure or threats over the additional 50% tariffs. “We have stressed more than once that pressuring or threatening China is not a right way to engage with us. China will firmly safeguard its legitimate rights and interests,” Liu Pengyu, an embassy spokesman, told Agence France-Presse.
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Speaking to ABC, a senior White House official said that the increased tariffs on China would be on top of the 34% reciprocal tariff Trump announced last week and the 20% already in place.
The new set of hostility against China came as Washington’s stock fall in and out of the redline. There were news that Trump was going to pause the implementation of his sweeping tariffs for 90 days. However, White House quickly dismissed it as “fake news”.
