{"id":38530,"date":"2025-04-11T11:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/markets-slide-further-amid-fears-of-escalating-trade-war-between-china-and-us\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T11:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T11:28:31","slug":"markets-slide-further-amid-fears-of-escalating-trade-war-between-china-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/markets-slide-further-amid-fears-of-escalating-trade-war-between-china-and-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets slide further amid fears of escalating trade war between China and US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European markets slip into red after China ups ante by increasing retaliatory tariffs on US goods to 125%<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/11\/macron-speaks-of-90-days-of-uncertainty-as-trump-tariffs-spark-further-losses\">China raises tariffs on US goods to 125%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/apr\/11\/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war-us-china-markets-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stock markets slid further on Friday amid growing fears of an escalating trade war between the world\u2019s two biggest economies as China announced it would increase its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/11\/macron-speaks-of-90-days-of-uncertainty-as-trump-tariffs-spark-further-losses\">retaliatory tariffs on US goods<\/a> to 125%.<\/p>\n<p>The increase from 84% ups the ante to the same level as the US 125% \u201creciprocal\u201d tariff on Beijing\u2019s imports that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/10\/us-china-trade-war-intensifies-as-beijings-tariffs-come-into-effect-after-trump-pause\"> came into force on Thursday<\/a>, although the White House clarified later that day that its total levies on Chinese goods were now at least 145% when a separate 20% <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/apr\/10\/trump-tariffs-us-china-eu-trade-war-markets-latest-news-updates?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with%3Ablock-67f7f1df8f0861692b423efd#block-67f7f1df8f0861692b423efd\">fentanyl-related border tax<\/a> was included.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/11\/china-raises-tariffs-on-us-goods-sending-stock-markets-sliding-further\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European markets slip into red after China ups ante by increasing retaliatory tariffs on US goods to 125% China raises tariffs on US goods to 125% Business live \u2013 latest updates Stock markets slid further on Friday amid growing fears of an escalating trade war between the world\u2019s two biggest economies as China announced it &#8230; <a title=\"Markets slide further amid fears of escalating trade war between China and US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/markets-slide-further-amid-fears-of-escalating-trade-war-between-china-and-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Markets slide further amid fears of escalating trade war between China and US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}