“When duties come into force at 12.01, China will see an additional 104 percent added to import. China did not meet the term Trump set by the president (Donald) to the south of eastern time to remove retaliatory tariffs” – Edward Lawrence's Fox Business reporter wrote on the platform x reporter Fox Business, citing a spokeswoman for the White House.
Leavitt confirmed in this way that Trump intends to realize his threat from Monday, when he threatened to apply an additional 50 % duties on imports from China, if Beijing does not withdraw from his 34 % retaliatory customs announced on Friday, which are to come into force on Thursday.
104 percent duties on China
In February, Trump imposed a 20 % duty on goods from China, and last Wednesday announced the imposition of an additional 34 % rate under tariffs to establish “reciprocity” in trade relations. After Beijing announced the same, the US president announced another 50 percent In total, it gives a 104 % rate for almost all products imported from China.
A spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Trade warned about Trump's step, saying that Beijing “He will definitely take remedies to protect their own rights and interests. If the US will insist on their own, China will fight to the end.”
The latest rate makes China, the largest exporter in the world, are the most punished country in the global Trump trade war. The United States had $ 295 billion in the commercial deficit with China in 2024, according to the US trade representative. While Japan and South Korea conducted talks with the administration of Trump, Washington and Beijing did not communicate seriously in this matter, and the US trade representative Jamieson Greer said that Beijing did not signal any willingness to get involved in commercial talks.
“Other countries signaled that they would like to find a way forward in terms of reciprocity. China would not and see what would result from it,” Greer told the US Congress on Tuesday. “I think that we have to cooperate with our loved ones to make sure we have working commercial agreements. And if the Chinese are open, we'll see … but they didn't signal it at all.”
Additional duties on China, as well as 56 other countries with which the USA have a commercial deficit, will come into force on Wednesday at midnight East American time (6 am in Poland). Poland will also be among the affected countries, as part of the European Union, which will receive a 20 % duty.
