Posted on 04/11/2025 4:51:03 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China announced Friday that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% — the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies that has rattled markets and raised fears of a global slowdown.
While U.S. President Donald Trump paused import taxes this week for other countries, he raised tariffs on China and they now total 145%. China has denounced the policy as “economic bullying" and promised countermeasures. The new tariffs begin Saturday.
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so no mushu pork for the Chinese for a while...no soy...tough times!
Empty gesture. We sell far less to them than we buy from them and whether its 84% or 125%, goods from either country are now pretty much priced out of the market in the other.
Must break ourselves free from the CCP and isolate China, which like an octopus as its tentacles over every country in the world.
Seems to me China has more to lose.
I’m sure Trump will go to 200%.
So what? Anything they want to buy from us they just steal the idea and make it themselves.
Trump has Russia on the ropes with oil prices and is bankrupting China with tariffs.
I’m still not sick of winning.
And Ill raise you 200, what a way to stop us from buying thier crap
China is shooting off its toes one-by-one. Chinese imports from America are a very low ratio to exports to to America. China has already restricted exports of the things we actually need from China and has got us looking elsewhere for those things, lithium, for instance. Greenland has a LOT of lithium.
well lets hope they are wrong
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China’s tariff hike will hurt China more than the U.S.—here’s why.
China simply doesn’t import enough from the U.S. to match tariff pressure one-for-one. The U.S. buys hundreds of billions more from China than China buys from us. That means Trump’s tariffs hit a much bigger slice of their economy than theirs hit ours.
And while China claims there’s “no market acceptance” for U.S. goods, many of our exports—like energy, ag products, and tech components—are in global demand. We can sell them elsewhere. China, on the other hand, relies heavily on American consumers.
Bottom line: China’s retaliatory tariffs are mostly symbolic. They don’t have the leverage.
This feels more like face-saving than strategic problem-solving.
In Chinese political culture, maintaining “face” (面子, miànzi)—especially under public pressure—is often more important than the practical outcome. China can’t match U.S. tariffs dollar-for-dollar, but it has to respond to avoid appearing weak.
So instead of adjusting economically, they escalate rhetorically—knowing full well the impact hurts them more than us. It’s pride over pragmatism.
Xi Ping Pooh Pooh, do you really want to destroy your American market? Are you sure?
High tariff needs to be accompanied by cancelling the visas of ALL Chinese nationals in the USA including scientists and techs and honey traps. They are all spies so long as they have family in China as are 2nd generation citizens and a large part of third generation, too.
The top exports from the USA to China include:
Semiconductors and electronic components
Aircraft and aircraft parts
Soybeans and agricultural products
Motor vehicles and parts
Medical equipment and pharmaceuticals
Oil and gas products
Plastics and chemicals
Machinery and industrial equipment
Optical and medical instruments
Waste and scrap (including recycled metals and paper)
lol
If it is something we really NEED, like medicine or military parts or minerals, we should not be relying on China for it anyway.
The first items on that list I’d rather not sell them.
True. But how will you do that?
Major economies like Russia, India, and Brazil do business with China. Indeed, much of Asia and Africa. And the Anglosphere, Europe, the Arab world and Israel.
You're right that everyone does business with China. How are you going to tell everyone to stop?
We should also revoke the citizenship of their anchor babies.
Not that it will happen.
I’m not sure, but things like semi conductors and medications aren’t on the tariff list with China. If they start tariffing those items, then we will begin to see pushback by the US consumer. We depend on Chinese meds..
China to release another pandemic in 3-2-1....
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