Trump announces additional 100% tariff on China

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump wrote in a social media post on Friday that "the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying.
44% : " As for his possible meeting with Xi, Trump said he has not canceled it and that "I'm going to be there regardless, so I would assume we might have it." The two countries previously imposed levies exceeding 100 percent on each other after the Trump administration announced its tariffs measures this year.
43% : In another post, Trump said he was to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in South Korea later this month but that "now there seems to be no reason to do so." Trump later told reporters at the White House that the new tariff is a countermeasure against China's toughening of export controls on rare earths.

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