China slaps retaliatory tariffs of 84% on U.S. goods in response to Trump

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Source: CNBC

Published Wed, Apr 9 2025 7:09 AM EDT Updated 3 Min Ago


China has pushed back once again to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies by hiking its levies on U.S. imports to more than 80%. China’s Office of the Tariff Commission of the State Council said tariffs on U.S. goods will rise to 84% from 34% starting on April 10, according to a translation of the announcement. This comes after the latest U.S. tariff hike — which brings levies on Chinese goods to more than 100% — took effect at the start of April 9.

The repeated escalation of the tariffs threatens to bring trade between two of the world’s most important economies to a standstill. According to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. exported $143.5 billion of goods to China in 2024, while importing $438.9 billion of goods.

The Trump administration announced a sweeping new tariff policy last week, and warned other countries not to retaliate. Some nations, including Japan, have seemed willing to negotiate on tariffs, but China appears to be taking a more hardline stance and quickly announced a countertariff. After China’s initial response to the April 2 tariff rollout, Trump announced an additional 50% hike, putting the total level for import taxes on Chinese goods at 104%.

“I think it’s unfortunate that the Chinese actually don’t want to come and negotiate, because they are the worst offenders in the international trading system,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said to Fox Business on Wednesday after China’s latest announcement. “They have the most imbalanced economy in the history of the modern world, and I can tell you that this escalation is a loser for them.”

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Published Wed, Apr 9 2025 7:09 AM EDT Updated 11 Min Ago


China has pushed back once again to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies by hiking its levies on U.S. imports to more than 80%.

China’s Office of the Tariff Commission of the State Council said that tariffs on U.S. goods will rise to 84% from 34% starting on April 10, according to a translation of the announcement. This comes after the latest U.S. tariff hike — which brings levies on Chinese goods to more than 100% — took effect at the start of April 9.

The repeated escalation of the tariffs threatens to bring trade between two of the world’s most important economies to a standstill. The Trump administration announced a sweeping new tariff policy last week, and warned other countries not to retaliate. Some nations, including Japan, have seemed willing to negotiate on tariffs, but China appears to be taking a more hardline stance.

After China’s initial response to tariffs announced April 2, Trump announced an additional 50% hike, putting the total level for Chinese goods at 104%.

Published Wed, Apr 9 2025 7:09 AM EDT Updated 1 Min Ago


China has responded again to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies by hiking its levies on U.S. imports to more than 80%.

China's Office of the Tariff Commission of the State Council said that tariffs on U.S. goods will rise to 84% from 34% starting on April 10, according to a translation of the announcement. This comes after the latest U.S. tariff hike -- which brings levies on Chinese goods to more than 100% -- took effect at the start of April 9.

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[intrepidity]

1. Trump will take this as a victory

"See!?! That's 20 points less than they get, hahaha!"

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. If you go by product value, I suspect that China's tarrifs will hurt US manufacturer's much harder.

No need to import nuts and bolts, hardware assemblies etc if product demand for US technology is killed by China import tarrif's on US products.

President Simpleton and his braintrust don't know what Pandora's box of problems they have created for the US and world economy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. BBC: China retaliates with 84% additional tariffs on US goods

China's finance ministry has announced an additional 84% tariffs on all goods imported from the US.

The ministry says that these new charges will take effect from 12:01 CST (05:00 BST) on 10 April.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8vyy35g3mt?post=asset%3Aa5f6fd43-f285-4cef-8549-4b7ac5c517ef#post

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. I just saw that on fox Business bartaromo said

"China is absolutely escalating this!"

The morons continue to not see what the orange clostomty bag is doing 😆

[Ray Bruns]

10. They see. They don't care. Apparently they think their job

Is to provide cover for the orange anus.

[underpants]

4. Enjoy going to Walmart Lowe's Hobby Lobby etc MAGA

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Not just there but just about everywhere

The Dollar stores (various companies) are full of that.

The U.S. does NOT "own the means of production" so we are screwed because of greed, which pushed for the "outsourcing" and "offshoring" of our manufacturing in order to use cheap labor, and maximum profits.

[Bengus81]

11. I've never seen a computer case that isn't made in China. Many of those can run

$150-$300 depending on how crazy someone wants to get. That 104% tariff will add a lot of money to just the shell of a computer build.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. You don't even have to go as "high tech" and expensive as "computers"

Just pick up a typical item in your residence and flip it over to see where it is made.

I know we in the U.S. continually go through periods of frantic talk about looking for items with a "Made in the USA" sticker on them!



It was to the point where there was more and more use of the "Assembled in the U.S." printing on items to make it look like it was a "U.S.-made product", and even Apple introduced its idiotic "Designed by Apple in California" that is added to its "Assembled in China" wording on their products.



I recently bought a new little CC SKYWAVE (C. Crane) portable AM/FM/Shortwave/Weather/Air Band radio and flipping it over right now, it says "Made in China".

I have a rare one though - a "Logitech MX Vertical Wireless Mouse" that I bought a couple months ago that says "Made in Vietnam".

I do have one of those KitchenAid 5qt stand mixers and THAT tank is made in the U.S.

https://ohiobusinessmag.com/made-in-america/



and - https://www.cnet.com/pictures/we-take-a-look-inside-the-kitchenaid-factory/

[llmart]

41. There was a PBS documentary awhile ago...

can't remember when or what it was called but it was about a young Asian-American guy who went through his parents' house looking for at least one or two items not made in China. I wish I could find that documentary because it would be even more relevant today.

(Probably an episode of "America Reframed"?)

[IronLionZion]

16. It's hard to find anything that doesn't have Chinese parts even if assembled here

There are economies of scale decades in the making for why everything is made in China.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. "There are economies of scale decades in the making for why everything is made in China."

Perfect description!

IMHO, this introduced a Communist country to "capitalism" and now you have a pile of Chinese oligarchs. Same thing happened to Russia except they are not as much into "manufacturing" as China but they have well-desired natural resources (oil and LNG).

[underpants]

23. We are the richest country in the world. Of course we don't make things here

We really were the “shining city on the hill”. People in castles don’t MAKE anything, that’s for the peons down the hill to do…or have them come up to do it in the castle.

Dollar Store - I bought this thing there in the middle 90’s that I still have and even now I think about where it was made and who made it. It’s a black steel hatchet with a hammer head opposite the hatchett and a crow bar end up from the handle. Rubber handle. I’m pretty sure I bought it at a Dollar Store. If they sold this for $1 (with transport) what kind of ungodly foundry operation that must’ve come out of? I still have it hanging in the wall in the garage. I told my daughter it was my go-to Zombie apocalypse tool - she said it’d be a good one.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. Sounds like something like this

Probably good for campers

(reminds me of a tent-camping trip me and a bunch of my co-workers went on in Carlisle, PA at a RV/Camp facility and one of them getting inebriated and having at some small dead saplings with an axe to get some firewood for the campfire. )

[underpants]

28. That is exactly it.

I bought when I was mountain biking a lot and camping.

Sounds like a camping trip I was on at a city park. We didn’t have means to get more wood so someone bent over a tree into the fire. Several park rangers came out of the woods. All directions. One just put his hand out to my friend and confiscated the item he was currently using - not for tobacco. One said “You have 10 minutes to break this place down and leave or you’re going to jail.” We packed everything and 10 people into my Buick real quick like.

[BumRushDaShow]

29. BWAH!

Those are the tales to remember and retell.

(and my camping trip was just over 30 years ago too - back in the early '90s)

[the_liberal_grandpa]

19. Home Depot is for MAGA

Lowe"s is where i shop

[sop]

5. 'From aviation to agriculture: How China's retaliatory tariffs will impact U.S. companies'

"Aviation...Boeing stands to be one of the biggest casualties of the new tariffs, which will make its aircraft significantly more expensive compared to competitors Airbus and China’s state-owned COMAC."

"Semiconductors...China imports roughly $10 billion worth of semiconductors from the U.S. annually, with Intel’s CPUs accounting for about $8 billion of that figure, according to analysts at Bernstein. These chips are widely used in laptops and servers, and in 2024, China became Intel’s largest market, contributing 29% of its total revenue."

"Farm Equipment...The U.S. farm equipment sector faces additional pressure as China’s new tariff comes on top of an earlier 10% levy imposed in March. The combined duties are likely to impact leading American manufacturers such as Caterpillar, Deere & Co, and AGCO."

"Agriculture...The U.S. agricultural sector could suffer the most under the new tariffs. China is the largest overseas market for American agricultural exports, and the steep tariffs threaten to significantly reduce demand."

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/from-aviation-to-agriculture-how-chinas-retaliatory-tariffs-will-impact-u-s-companies/articleshow/120054798.cms

[Bengus81]

12. Tough shit Boeing. Bet all of your execs were high fivin' on Nov 5th

How's that working out about now??

[Auggie]

17. A lot of California wine is exported to China

The oligarchs that can afford the most expensive wines might still buy it, but they could also focus on Bordeaux and Burgundy out of spite.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Trump is really ruining things for everyone

Must be many misgivings among his voters.... at least those with a bit of self-awareness

[Lovie777]

7. What say you, Walmart.............

[dalton99a]

34. +1. 80 percent of Walmart's merchandise is made in China.

[Prairie Gates]

9. How much are we going to have to pay the lazy farmers to sit on their hands

Given the vote differences in farm country, it's almost as if this is the result they preferred.

[Bengus81]

13. Yeah...Trump fucks it up just like in 2018 and taxpayers FUND another round

of subsidy checks for farmers. How many checks will that be if a new round goes through since the 30's....three?

Hey Congressional Democrats...IF they get one more fucking dime of subsidies then propose a quarterly stimulus check of $1,000 with the same income restrictions as during Covid.

The richest of the rich get a huge tax cut,Corporations get a MASSIVE tax cut and farmers get yet another subsidy check. The rest of us?? We always get FUCKED. That shit has to stop.

[louis-t]

15. Orange asshole actually thinks he can win a trade war.

Just by waving his tiny, mushroom dick in everyone's faces.

[IronLionZion]

20. He thinks making the rest of us lose is "winning".

He won't be alive long enough to face the consequences.

[zorbasd]

22. Can he actually wave a little mushroom

[DallasNE]

24. What Did Trump Think China Would Do?

If you think supply chains were bad during COVID-19, you haven't seen anything yet. Remember the empty shelves for toilet paper? Buckle up because that was nothing compared to what is coming next. And this time it will include food because ICE has rounded up the farm workers harvesting the food. This gives new meaning to "stupid". Think of food shortages for fast food outlets. Panic time straight ahead.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. "What Did Trump Think China Would Do?"

White supremacists feel they are "superior" to everyone else and that includes men from "non-white" countries.

And this part -

If you think supply chains were bad during COVID-19, you haven't seen anything yet.

Not even getting into the worker problem, during the first administration and during COVID, there were tariffs on China pretty much solely. NOW we're talking globally.

The U.S. makes its own toilet paper and although people hoarded it, creating a "supply" issue, that was self-induced. But this time having tariffs on the ACTUAL WOOD PULP used to make that paper (mostly from Canada), is definitely going to impact those paper product companies. But then I guess if you have a bidet in your bathroom, it's not a big deal.

[yardwork]

26. So much winning.

[Initech]

37. If any other politician had done 1/10th of what the fucking asshole is doing, they would have been thrown out by now.

It's insane that he still gets a free pass to do the most evil shit.

[VMA131Marine]

31. The problem with Trump's strategy

is what’s the end game.

Is he going to increase tariffs another 100%?

And then when China retaliates?

Sooner rather than later the tariff becomes irrelevant because trade is completely shut down.
…
And then what?

Trump is a one trick pony and it won’t take long of no imports from China before all but the most MAGAist of MAGAs realise something has gone very wrong. Not only will prices increase dramatically, but there will be shortages of basic consumer goods. And I’m 99% certain that the Chinese are better equipped to handle a protracted trade war and will be less affected by it.

Edit: My title implies that Trump has a strategy. He does not unless you count endless escalation as a strategy.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. It's all Navarro's so-called "strategy"

He is an empty shell with rocks rattling around inside and so is the "strategy".

[thought crime]

35. Navarro just tells trump what he wants to hear

This quack was selected precisely because he tells trump he is right about everything. He plays the same role John Eastman did with legal "advice" with respect to the attempted coup in 2020.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. Well Muskrat seems pissed at Navarro

and has been blaming him for the tariff fiasco. Anything to have them all self-destruct is fine with me!

[OAITW r.2.0]

33. New car sales will plummet as the component costs double.

Folks will have to hold on to their old vehicles much longer and get used to paying a lot higher costs to keep them on the road.

[Initech]

36. Has America been made great again yet?

[happy feet]

39. Art of the Deal?

More like art of destroying our economy

Stupid bully believes he can win against a China economy of 1.4B people with a burgeoning middle class vs 340M in the U.S. I don't blame him though because he's gotten away with being a bully all his life with Repubs/Press NEVER punching back.

China and Europe are punching back and he has no idea tit for tat will lead to mutual destruction. Dumb ass - along with his Repub sycophants and Fox, etc. State TV.

[North Coast Lawyer]

40. No Longer Peasants

Trump/MAGA truly believe that China is a nation of peasants they can bully at will. They're in for a rude awakening. Modern China's economy is newer than America's so not yet as diverse but it's still at least as competitive. When it comes to engineering and manufacturing China is often better than the USA -- investing in education and having a rational industrial policy works. In addition to manufacturing might China's soft power initiatives that have flown under the radar of most Americans have greatly increased China's global influence.

[wolfie001]

43. Gawd know America stopped investing in education for quite a while now

Divestment is the proper term. Basic rePuke philosophy 101.

[serbbral]

42. If it would not hurt us so bad

I would say GOOD for China! I am glad they are not throwing in the towel. Good for them. Sorry, if I have offended anyone.

[wolfie001]

44. I'm rooting for Canada and Europe too

Hurt that bloated, lying mf'er.

[tornado34jh]

45. I do not support the Chinese dictatorship, but I think China is betting on the long game

A vast number of products are made there. So I am guessing that they think it will hurt the US more because China makes a vast amount of products there. Really most products aren't built in one country, even things like cars and cameras.

[serbbral]

46. I do not support the Chinese dictatorship either.......

But I'd be lying if I said that deep down, I did not feel some admiration for that country because of its refusal to back down.

[tornado34jh]

47. Well, that's the thing, they know Trump is nothing but a weak man

They, like Russia, were hoping that people would elect someone who doesn't know what they are doing. Dictators love weak leaders because they can easily manipulate them.