Trump Tariff: China Raises Duties on US Goods to 125 Percent
- The People's Republic of China has retaliated against United States President Donald Trump's tariff on goods from China
- On Friday, April 11, 2025, China announced a 125% counter-tariff on United States imports.
- The Chinese Embassy in the US disclosed that China will raise tariffs for all imported US goods from 84% to 125% on April 12
Legit.ng journalist, Adekunle Dada has over 8 years of experience covering metro, government policy, and international issues
Beijing, China - The People's Republic of China has announced a 125% counter-tariff on United States of America (USA) imports.
The new tariff hike further exacerbates the financial turmoil between the two economic powers.
Source: Twitter
The Friday, April 11, 2025 announcement is an increase from 84% to 125%
The Chinese Embassy in the US disclosed this in a post shared via its X handle @ChineseEmbinUS.
“China will raise tariffs for all imported US goods from 84% to 125% on April 12.”
Even if the United States imposes even higher tariffs, it would no longer make economic sense and ultimately go down as a joke in world economic history.
Given that it's already impossible for the Chinese market to accept #US imports at the current tariff level, if the United States imposes further #tariffs on Chinese products, #China will ignore them.
However, should the United States persist in substantially undermining #China's interests, China will take firm countermeasures and fight to the end.
The Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council.
US-China trade war surges
Legit.ng reported that the US-China trade war intensified, sending the global economy into unknown territory and dampening relief after President Donald Trump's earlier climbdown from a wider tariff onslaught against the rest of the world.
The White House clarified that Trump's big hike in tariffs on China announced 24 hours earlier had actually taken his total levies this year on imports from the world's second-biggest economy to a staggering total of 145 percent- not the previously reported 125 percent.
This was because the latest tariff hike comes on top of a 20 percent tariff already imposed earlier. China has retaliated with levies of 84 percent on US imports.
Where things stand in the US-China trade war
Legit.ng also reported that sales of Chinese goods to the United States last year totalled more than $500 billion -- 16.4 percent of the country's exports, according to Beijing's customs data.
And China imported $143.5 billion in goods from the United States in 2024, according to the office of the US Trade Representative.
But China has long drawn Trump's ire with a trade surplus with the United States that reached $295.4 billion last year, according to the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Tariff war could cut US-China goods trade by 80 percent
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the World Trade Organization chief said the US-China tariff war could reduce trade in goods between the two economic giants by 80 percent, pulling down the rest of the world economy.
President Donald Trump raised tariffs on China to 125 percent on Wednesday as the world's two largest economies fought over retaliatory levies.
WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said:
"The escalating trade tensions between the United States and China pose a significant risk of a sharp contraction in bilateral trade. Our preliminary projections suggest that merchandise trade between these two economies could decrease by as much as 80 percent."
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Source: Legit.ng
