Posted on 10/12/2025 2:48:17 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
For thousands of manufacturers across China, it’s déjà vu—with implications for the country’s fragile economy.
Earlier this year, after President Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% in April, American customers of Alan Chau’s toy factory in southern China abruptly froze orders, sparking a cash crunch ttohat brought his business to the brink. So it came as a relief when the U.S. and China reached a trade truce weeks later in mid-May, rolling back most of their tariffs on one another—and allowing Chau to resume shipping his products again.
Now, less than six months later, prohibitively high tariffs could be the reality again for Chau and tens of thousands of other factory owners that make China a global manufacturing powerhouse. Trump said Friday that he would impose a 100% additional tariff on all Chinese goods, effective Nov. 1.
“That is literally an embargo,” said Chau. “Who is going to do business with China?”
After months of trade talks in which U.S. officials expressed cautious optimism about a breakthrough, the White House was caught off guard when Beijing in recent days unleashed a barrage of measures, showing off an array of tools in its trade-war arsenal, including tightened export restrictions on rare-earth materials that could hurt U.S. industries and an antitrust probe targeting American chip company Qualcomm.
On Sunday, Beijing blamed Washington for having first introduced new restrictions against China after the latest round of trade talks in September.
“Frequently threatening high tariffs is not the right approach to engaging with China,” Beijing’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement.
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The Chicoms made sure their Christmas orders are in. They know the GOP has the midterms to deal with in 2026. A hot trade war in the middle of those elections might get complicated.
To HELL WITH RED CHINA FOREVER! Save your smarty ass response. DEATH TO MARXISM EVERYWHERE!
I don’t care. Screw the chi coms.
Trump knows that China plays the long game, so he has to look at down the road. Stupid investors care about today and tomorrow which complicates the game. But we know who wrote The Art Of theDeal so patience is a virtue more Americans need to cultivate.
Wow , we better wake up
and WSJ better hire actual Americans .
The Murdoch leftist Globalist Hell on earth machine needs to be
destroyed .
China hoes mad.
😂😂😂😂
Trump’s Fresh Tariff Assault Threatens China’s Fragile Economy
Pfft
More like
Trump’s Fresh Tariff Defense of America’s economy Threatens China’s Fragile Economy
And our neo-aristocratic oligarchs grift !
And their legion propaganda media.
You are SOOOOO wrong you’re defecating in the street.
Natch.
This is the way it ought to be.
Uh-oh.
The raving illiterate weighs in. Yippee.
Hey, kiryandil, I think the poor thing is on the sauce again.
Yeesh, that’s loud and screechy. 😖
The key to the New Troll is sauced White Knights.
Putin had a chance to turn his back on Xi, instead he chose to thumb his nose at President Trump and the US. He can live with that decision now, bleeding out men for years for all I care. Dumb move. AMERICA FIRST ALWAYS!
Purin had a chance to be our ally, but he instead chose to continue he to be Xi’s bitch. So hos 2nd World Nation will continue to suffer and bleed out men. RED China is our TRUE firiegn enemy. I await more insults. You guys won’t engage on the issues, only insult.
If i’m a troll, it is for America First in everything.
I’m unclear where anyone called you a “troll”.
Do you have these internal dialogues where you just make things up, and then post responses to your fantasies?
Allegra did. Regardless, Red China is our enemy. They added the Deep State to kill 1 Million Americans, who were of the 150 Milluon victims of Marxism.
Uhhh, no, she didn't. She was talking about marcusmaximus.
I already talked to you about posting responses to your fantasies.
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