WASHINGTON (Reuters)-US President Donald Trump will talk to China President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, said his main commercial advisor Peter Navarro at an event, hours after new 10% tariffs About Chinese imports came into force, encouraging Beijing’s retaliatory rates.
Asked how consumers and US companies should understand China’s fares, Navarro said, “Let’s see what happens to today’s call.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Trump’s 10% tariffs on China’s products, saying that “it was a retaliatory fare about China for the last four years of its free -preceding distribution of Fentanil on the borders of our nation ”.
Leavitt did not provide updated information about the call between Trump and Xi, but said it would happen “soon.”
