Trump moves toward levying new tariff on China for flooding market with cheap goods
The Trump administration is considering a 7.5% tariff on Chinese goods to address concerns over excess industrial capacity and underpriced exports. This move is seen as a strategic effort to bypass previous legal setbacks while maintaining a trade truce with Beijing.
Why it matters
This represents a continuation of protectionist trade policies that impact global supply chains and international diplomatic relations.
President Donald Trump is moving toward levying a new tariff on China that would penalise the world's second-largest economy for flooding the global market with underpriced goods, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Two of the people who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations still being finalised said Mr. Trump is considering setting the new tariff at 7.5%. It's a level administration officials believe would not endanger the one-year trade truce between Washington and Beijing or a planned White House meeting between Mr. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping expected to take place in late September.
The move, if finalised, appears to be a calibrated effort by the White House to work around a Supreme Court decision earlier this year that struck down Trump's plan to implement a sweeping, high-tariff scheme not seen since the 1930s.
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