China urges U.S. to ‘immediately’ cancel reciprocal tariffs, vows counter-measures

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/03/china-pledges-countermeasures-against-sweeping-us-tariffs-donald-trump.html

36 comments

  1. With Trump, urging is waste of time. Better just do it and inform him we have categorically matched your tariffs on all US products coming into China.

  3. Narrator: *They did not in fact cancel tariffs and the citizens would come to regret this.*

  4. IMO, leaders need to make sure they say. TRUMP.

    Urge the US to remove him from office. He’s abusing the shit out of his powers as president.

  5. Dollar General is about to have tor rebrand to 3 Dollar General

  6. here we go, the world is not going to back down, escalating tariffs incoming.

    who could have predicted this /S

  7. Trump’s tax/tariff increases are NOT reciprocal. They are purely punitive. Why does the press regurgitate talking points?

  8. Well this is going to escalate quickly.
    First thing you’ll notice is inflation, then increased interest rates as the feds try to get inflation under control followed by job loss and for the grand finale… stagflation like we had in the 70’s . Stagflation is the hardest thing to get under control.

  9. Well, that’s unfortunately the downside of strong international trade connections.
    If one of the “big three” completely freaks out, the whole structure falls apart.

    The surprising thing is, I actually thought it would be China that would make the world think so much about this at some point.

    You have to give the Chinese leadership credit for one thing.
    They’re not as irresponsible regarding the global economy as the US is at the moment.

    I mean, China’s form of government doesn’t necessarily offer the most stable conditions for investors, but it’s not as bad as it is in the US at the moment.

  10. Man, it really feels like we’re on the cliff edge of a world war. Part of me wants to bury my head in the sand and stop watching the news. But then I’d just get anxious thinking I missed something major happening.

    This much information about the world just doesn’t feel good.

  12. “Just making sure, are you sure about that?”, said China while feeding bullets into a machine gun.

  13. Sorry. The old man is too busy yelling at clouds.

    Come back when we have a competent leaders. Call back in 4 years.

  14. A lot of articles keep reporting that the tariff rate on Chinese imports is 54% but I am almost certain that’s incorrect.

    All Chinese imports got hit with a 25% tariff in 2018 by Trump.  This was never reversed by Biden and when Trump entered office he implemented two rounds of 10% tariffs which increased the rate to 45% prior to today’s announcement.  Today he announced a 34% reciprocal tariff on top of existing tariffs.

    Meaning tariffs on Chinese imports should be 79%, not 54%.

  16. If the presumption is that everyone else cares about protecting the global economy more than Trump, then he has the advantage.

    But it’s unclear how much the public is with him on this. You have to hurt the swing state voters

  17. I hope the tourism industry is prepared to be decimated by republican’s complete bungling again. As if COVID wasn’t bad enough. It’s like billionaires are trying to force the world into a recession again so they can triple their money. But hear this republicans, we aren’t buying your crap this time. Choke on your greed.

  18. Tourism was worth a whopping 2.3 trillion dollars to America in 22, employing almost 10 million jobs. Pretty safe to say that’ll drop considerably as the world turns it back on the shit show.

  19. I’m actually strangely optimistic about all the trade deals that the rest of the world are going to do *without* the US.

    We’ve ignored a lot of cool things because the US has been such a focus for the economy. But Japan, for example, has cool tech that I want to become common. All that French wine that would go to the states, we get a taste of that. And whatever those penguins are making must be amazing.

  21. Do it China do it call his bluff? We are so sick and tired of nobody taking care of it here in the United States. I’m begging you call his bluff.

  22. Get ready for, “Trump saves economy forcing China into a very good deal for the US”

  23. They aren’t even reciprocal tariffs – they are based off trade deficits.
    Trump administration either doesn’t know the difference, or just blatantly lied to the whole world today – I’m honestly not sure which.

  25. Isn’t it like an extra 45% tariffs on China? Like goddamn are we trying to do a recession speedrun?

  28. Is China going to fuck with American agriculture imports again, which will require Trump bailing out US farmers…again?

  29. April 5th and 9th are the implementation dates:

    Over the next week expect targeted pauses, existing agreements announced as new agreements, and trivial promises spun as concessions.

    As the markets plummet, remember that Trump and his insiders already know which countries will get the deals, and the exact time they’ll announce it.

    There will be global market manipulation in the hundreds of billions, perhaps more.

    This cycle is going to repeat; they’re going to try dragging the global markets down with us.

  31. Stop calling them reciprocal tariffs. The media and countries as well are so fucking dumb for not calling it what they are. These are not reciprocal because reciprocal tariffs were already in place you absolute cunts. These are deficit based tariffs at best. What world we live in where everyone is afraid of saying things out loud. Fuck the United States and fuck their made up tariffs.

  32. Once we eventually get Congress back we’ll strip away his tariff power. And we should look at abolishing tariffs while we’re at it.

  33. I never thought I’d hear myself saying this, but Europe and UK need to improve ties with China and work together on a trade deal right now.

    Yes they’re technically a hostile nation but fuck me, they’re being nicer than the USA right now who have been totally compromised.

  36. Why the fuck is the media buying into this “reciprocal” bullshit rhetoric?

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