{"id":41113,"date":"2025-05-09T23:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/trump-says-80-tariff-on-china-seems-right-ahead-of-weekend-talks-with-beijing\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:11:23","slug":"trump-says-80-tariff-on-china-seems-right-ahead-of-weekend-talks-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/trump-says-80-tariff-on-china-seems-right-ahead-of-weekend-talks-with-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says 80% tariff on China \u2018seems right\u2019 ahead of weekend talks with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> on Friday morning said that an “80% Tariff on China seems right!” adding on Truth Social that the final number would be up to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An 80% tariff on Chinese goods coming into the U.S. would be nearly half of the current 145% tariff <\/a>on the Asian country.<\/p>\n

Minutes earlier, he posted: “CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA \u2014 WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!! CLOSED MARKETS DON\u2019T WORK ANYMORE!!!”<\/p>\n

It was the first time the president has put out a specific number, after previously suggesting the tariff could be lowered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

PIVOTAL TRADE TRADE WITH BEIJING LOOM AS TRUMP SWEARS IN NEW US AMBASSADOR TO CHINA: \u2018WHAT TIMING\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s suggested lower tariffs come ahead of weekend talks between Bessent and chief trade negotiator Jamieson Greer and Chinese economic tsar He Lifeng in Switzerland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a press briefing Friday, “That was a number the president threw out there, and we’ll see what happens this weekend,” adding that Trump wouldn\u2019t unilaterally lower the tariff and China would be required to make “concessions.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

TRUMP IS COMMITTED TO 10% BASELINE TARIFF, WHITE HOUSE SAYS, DESPITE UK TRADE DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Trump said that China is<\/a> eager to make a deal with the U.S.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Scott’s going to be going to Switzerland, meeting with China,” Trump told reporters Thursday at the White House. “And you know, they very much want to make a deal. We can all play games. Who made the first call, who didn’t make them? It doesn’t matter. Only matters what happens in that room. But I will tell you that China very much wants to make a deal. We’ll see how that works out.”<\/p>\n

The Trump administration announced widespread tariffs for multiple countries on April 2, following criticism that other countries’ trade practices are unfair towards the U.S.<\/p>\n

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The administration later adjusted its initial proposal and announced on April 9 it would immediately impose a 145% tariff on\u00a0Chinese goods,<\/a>\u00a0while reducing reciprocal tariffs on other countries for 90 days to a baseline of 10%. China responded by raising tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Diana Stancy contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump on Friday morning said that an “80% Tariff on China seems right!” adding on Truth Social that the final number would be up to U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.\u00a0 An 80% tariff on Chinese goods coming into the U.S. would be nearly half of the current 145% tariff on the Asian country. … 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-41113","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\/41113","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=41113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}