United States President Donald Trump decided Raise tariffs to China Up to a total of 104 % from this midnight for retaliation of Beijing to its tariff increases, the White House spokeswoman reported Tuesday, Karoline Leavitt, a la cadena Fox Business.
The republican leader had said this week that if China did not withdraw his battery from reciprocal tariffs 34 % for today’s no Another additional 50 % game that would make exports to the US to the Asian giant loading with tariffs up to 104 %.
According to Fox Business journalist Edward Lawrence, that cites the spokeswoman of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, those new increases in tariffs to China would enter into force a minute after midnight today.
Before that period was fulfilled, the president had assured Tuesday that China wants an agreement on tariffs “desperately”, But he considered that they do not know how to start “to negotiate and said that the White House was waiting for the call of the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
Today, the Chinese authorities expressed their “firm condemnation” to what they called for “Chantajista nature” of the United States.
China last Friday deployed a Batters of countermeasures to the tariffs announced last week by Trump, which raised the levies imposed on Chinese products up to at least 54 %.
Among them are 34 % taxes to imports from the United States, sanctions to some of their companies, restrictions on the export of certain rare earths, the suspension of the importation of chicken and sorghum products of certain US companies, as well as the opening of research Anti -dumping ‘ against signatures and products of the North American country.
China also filed a demand before the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the United States for the “reciprocal tariffs” to all its commercial partners through the dispute solution mechanism.
Trump announced on April 2 Global 10 % tariffs that entered into force last Saturday and some upper rates for other regions and countries such as China and the European Union (EU) that will begin to be applied on day 9.
