Jennifer Jet and Peter Guo – April4, 2025
China announced a 34% tariff on all products imported from the U.S. on Friday, escalating the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.
The move came two days after President Donald Trump imposed the same tariff on all Chinese imports as part of what he called reciprocal tariffs on a long list of U.S. trade partners
Combined with 20% in other levies that Trump has imposed on Chinese goods since returning to office in January, the total U.S. tariff on some Chinese goods is at least 54%.
Announcing the new tariffs at a White House event on Wednesday, Trump singled out China as one of the “nations that treat us badly.” The U.S. has a higher trade deficit with China than with any other country, reaching $295.4 billion last year.
China, one of the U.S.’s largest trading partners, urged the Trump administration to immediately cancel the tariffs and “resolve trade disputes through consultations in a manner of equality, respect and reciprocity.”
The latest U.S. tariff “does not comply with international trade rules, seriously harms China’s legitimate rights and interests, and is a typical act of unilateral bullying,” the Chinese Ministry of Finance said in a statement Friday. “It not only damages U.S. interests but also endangers global economic development and the stability of supply chains.”
China’s tariff on U.S. goods will take effect next Thursday, the ministry said. The new U.S. tariff on Chinese goods takes effect on Wednesday.
China also took aim at the U.S. agriculture sector, announcing an immediate suspension on the import of chicken products from three U.S. companies, and the import of sorghum from C&D (USA) Inc., citing health concerns.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry said it had filed a lawsuit at the World Trade Organization over the 34% tariff Trump announced Wednesday.
“China has always been a staunch defender of the international economic and trade order and a firm supporter of the multilateral trading system,” a ministry spokesperson said. “We urge the U.S. to immediately correct its erroneous practices and cancel the unilateral tariff measures.”
The ministry added 11 U.S. companies to its “unreliable entities” list, prohibiting them from importing from or exporting to China, and 16 companies to its export control list.
In addition, the Commerce Ministry announced an anti-dumping investigation into imported medical CT X-ray tubes from the U.S. and India and new export controls on rare earths including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium starting Friday.
U.S. stock futures and European markets fell sharply on Beijing’s announcement. The news came on Friday evening in China as markets were closed for a public holiday.
China’s 34% tariff was much higher than expected, said Tianchen Xu, senior China economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, a financial forecasting service.
China had been relatively restrained in its response to Trump’s earlier tariffs, keeping its retaliatory tariffs limited to 10% to 15% and targeted only at certain goods.
“We don’t see such restraint this time,” said Xu, who is based in Beijing.
“This reflects changes in China’s tactics — it probably wants to force Trump into negotiations,” he said.
Xu said China might be willing to make some concessions in exchange for tariff reductions, such as approving the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner to avoid a U.S. ban, the deadline for which is Saturday.
China’s previous responses to U.S. tariffs had also included investigations, new export controls and the inclusion of more U.S. companies on the unreliable entities list.
Non-tariff measures such as restrictions on the export of rare minerals, which are key components in everything from electronics to defense systems, can have a significant impact, Xu said.
“In the extreme case, the U.S. will lose access to all China-produced critical minerals, and it will struggle to find replacements,” he added.
The U.S. imported $438.9 billion in goods from China last year, according to the U.S. Trade Representative, and exported $143.5 billion in goods.
A hawk which had its eggs stolen from its nest terrorised a Home Counties village by swooping on residents has been nicknamed Bomber Harris after being caught, its new handler has said.
The Harris’s hawk – which left at least one man needing hospital treatment in Flamstead, Hertfordshire – was finally captured on Thursday after weeks of attacks that left residents fearful. told the PA news agency: “He will be trained – he’s not going to be put in a cage.
He’s got a pair of wings and he’s proved he can use them.”
The bird earned the nickname Bomber Harris, the war criminal from w w 2 from villagers, referencing the wartime commander of RAF Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, when in fact Harris took the blame for churchills decision
because of the way the hawk had been “bombing down on people”.
:Wayne, who has been trying to catch the hawk for a month, said: “I’m the one that’s been chasing him for four weeks, setting traps – had about six traps running.
“She was just one step ahead of us all the time. I kept saying her luck’s got to run out eventually – and it did.
“It was quite intense because of what she was doing – she was hurting people, terrorising a village.”
The hawk was eventually caught by local resident Steve Harris, who managed to trap it in his garden after it had repeatedly chased him during his morning runs.
“The latest U.S. tariff “does not comply with international trade rules, seriously harms China’s legitimate rights and interests, and is a typical act of unilateral bullying,” the Chinese Ministry of Finance said in a statement Friday.”
Yep, I would agree with that. But then again what else would one expect from a bloated old buffoon like Trumpstein?
China doesn’t treat Nazi Amerika badly.
Nixon opened the Chinese door for Wall Street mobs and City Crime Cartels. The best side of the post WW2 globalisation curve was over, that post WW2 euphoria was gone, and so the Nazis moved to a debt system and a global extortion racket. That system has/is coming to an end.
I keep saying it, the debt system wasn’t about managing the information. What’s happening now was known about in the 90s, probably earlier, but all they do is kick the can down the road, same for ignoring Putin’s 20 plus year call for a multipolar world.
In the 90s, the Nazis controlled everything, but threw it away, because they failed to adapt to the information, so Clinton striped out protections like the Glass Steagal Act 1933, and Dubya and Greenspan, along with other Nazi Central Banks built the debt bubble which the City Crime Cartels popped in 2008, all by design.
What Donald Hitler is doing is just another step in destroying the right full opportunities for developing economies.
After 2008, we had currentcy wars, we had trade wars, all instigated by the Nazis. These failed, now we’re well into the era of sanctions and now a tariff war, and why? Because the Wall Street mobs and City Crime Cartels could make money, because their puppet Nazi leaders bankrolled the entire system with debt.
As you can see, we’ve been going down a rabbit hole, and there’s fewer options, and less space to manoeuvre.
Nazi Amerika can’t win the tariff war. Donald Hitler is in a mighty deep hole, and soon, millions of unemployed and inflation. Donald Hitler has a small window, which which will pass, and a number of things could happen. One, Trump gets bumped off, two, the classic escape, a major war, probably Iran, but China is sending signals that they’ll move on Taiwan, if Iran is attacked.
The Hooties are planning some big surprises. Maybe B2s are for Yemen, and Iran.
You cannot blame China, Russia, the other BRICS, and aspiring countries for a mess created in the City of London, and New York. They did it to themselves, all for greed, all for quick returns.
You fix this, by banning the big banks, and transnational corporations. Nazi elites won’t do this, because they’ll lose their power and ATMs.
The thicko sheeple really don’t know that there are different, and better ways to run the economy.
I don’t believe there’s any one out there suggesting what I’ve been saying for a very long time.
“In the extreme case, the U.S. will lose access to all China-produced critical minerals, and it will struggle to find replacements,” he added.
Yes, this is the basis of the trade agreements between the Yankees and the Russkies, the so called peace plan, which of course doesn’t impact the slaughter, but opens up Russias ‘markets’ to Yankee vultures..while Vlad bends over the barrel..
Of course most of silicon valleys product is created by dog eater slave labour..so presumably the yankee imperialists will be going back to paraffin and pen and paper…
imbeciles..
As China makes so many US goods it seems strange Trump should bite the hand that feeds, clothes and otherwise makes American life and economy possible. If he’s going to snub the economists he could at least observe what the mobsters do. They would never risk putting themselves out of business like this by potentially closing down so many sources of income because it just puts an end to many income streams.
Trump may make some money from high-end goods like Aston Martin cars, but they won’t make up the potential losses he may be creating from ending low-end high-volume markets like cheap but reliable Chinese tools, kitchenware and countless household goods and digital products.
We don’t need a world-wide trade war. All that is necessary in order to INSOURCE and bring back industries and jobs is to cut ALL trade with the PRC. Countries which do not follow suit and start insourcing and remain with their huge trade deficits will simply go down the economic shit hole as the yare doing – with not future – no hope. That is what is happening with the globalist “leveling” programs where we make virtually nothing in our nations including children, and are wards of the international banking cartel and that 1% invested in China and we simply continue to die off and be replaced.
Wallymart prices will skyrocket now? Whenever the price of fuel jumps they pass on the fuel cost to rise in pricing as well, always sticking up our asses. Blaming China should be shared with all the american companies who have their crap manufactured over there. But, i beleive mexico and Canada are excluded from T’s tariffs. I recently bought well made and reasonable priced item “Hecho en Mexico”, and will likely see more from south of border.
The key here is to boycott everyone until this silly trade war is over.
What if there are people who want to “earn”, to have a “job”, but just by letting the markets determine everything for the lowest prices, we wake up and find out that most of the jobs and factories have been “outsourced” to nations with low-cost labor with the people working for about $1 a day or even $20. So, we end up being wards of the international banking cartel and the 1% owning virtually everything telling us we are useless eaters, and wanting to cull us?? Is that the solution?? Let the market decide?? Meaning lets keep on with so-called “free trade” (which we could never really “afford”) and let the Rothschild dynasty and that 1% or 2% who are imbedded in places like China and have made trillions with all of their outsourcing and using our unprotected markets to carry on milking us and the planet and killing off our nations and peoples??? Let the neocon globalists and the socialists just keep on screwing up everything unchecked?? Or, let the greedy scum at the top and China determine our futures? Is that what people in the West really want?
Or, do we have our governments wake up and balance trade to get rid of the deficits and insource industries we can control and afford so that we and our nations at least have a future and are free of all of the globalist mass deceptions, debt-rigging, UN Agenda pretexts, fearmongering, wars, hopelessness, and nihilism?
as nico x says: ‘they’re all in on it’
China stopped the sellout of its Panamenian
Harbour shares . Larry Fink is angry .
I’m not an economist’s butt