Trump announces additional 100% tax on Chinese imports | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump said that "starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying.
50% : Trump did not formally cancel the meeting with Xi, so much as indicating that it might not happen as part of a trip at the end of the month in Asia.
50% : Trump said that China is "becoming very hostile" and that it's holding the world "captive" by restricting access to the metals and magnets used in electronics, computer chips, lasers, jet engines and other technologies.
50% : Trump imposed tariffs totaling 145% on Chinese goods, with China responding with import taxes of 125% on American products.
50% : The relief those lower rates provided could now disappear with the new import taxes Trump threatened, likely raising the stakes not only of whether Trump and Xi meet but how any disputes are resolved.
50% : Cole McFaul, a research fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology, said that Trump appeared in his post to be readying for talks on the possibility that China had overplayed its hand.
50% : It's still unclear how Trump intends to follow through on his threats and how China plans to respond.
49% : The taxes were so high as to effectively be a blockade on trade between the countries.
47% : " Craig Singleton, senior director of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank, said Trump's post could "mark the beginning of the end of the tariff truce" that had lowered the tax rates charged by both countries.
46% : Not only would the global trade war instigated by Trump be rekindled, but import taxes being heaped on top of the 30% already being levied on Chinese goods could, by the administration's past statements, cause trade to break down between the U.S. and China.
45% : The new tariffs built on an earlier post Friday on Truth Social in which Trump said that "there seems to be no reason" to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as part of an upcoming trip to South Korea.
44% : "I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so," Trump posted.

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