China urges US President Donald Trump to stop threats, blackmail over trade war
China has told Washington to stop threatening and blackmailing after US President Donald Trump stated that it was up to Beijing to come to the negotiating table to discuss ending their trade war.
Reports say that Trump has imposed new tariffs on both friends and foes alike but has reserved his heaviest measures for China, with new levies of up to 145 per cent on many Chinese imports, even as Beijing retaliates with duties of 125 percent on US goods.
Beijing’s commerce ministry later stated that it had noted that the cumulative tariffs on some individual Chinese exports to the US have reached 245 percent under various designations, though it did not detail the scope of the affected products.