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China raises the stakes
Hull Daily Mail
|April 12, 2025
CHINA has announced that it will raise tariffs on US goods from 84% to 125% - in the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies that has rattled markets and raised fears of a global slowdown.
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While US President Donald Trump paused import taxes this week for other countries, he raised tariffs on China and they now total 145%.
China has denounced the policy as “economic bullying” and prom-ised countermeasures. The new tariffs begin today (Saturday).
Washington's repeated jacking up of tariffs “will become a joke in the history of the world economy’, a Chinese Finance Ministry spokesman said in a statement announcing the new tariffs.
This story is from the April 12, 2025 edition of Hull Daily Mail.
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