{"id":896,"date":"2019-08-02T14:27:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.jonotarsomoy.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2019-08-02T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:27:06","slug":"trump-to-impose-more-tariffs-on-chinese-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/2019\/08\/02\/trump-to-impose-more-tariffs-on-chinese-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to impose more tariffs on Chinese goods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced fresh tariffs of 10% on another $300bn of Chinese products from 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>It came after the latest round of bilateral talks showed little sign of a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Investors reacted to the news with dismay. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones share index fell sharply, tumbling about 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump tweeted that the tariffs applied to &#8220;the remaining 300 Billion Dollars of goods and products coming from China into our Country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He also criticised China for not honouring promises to buy more US agricultural products and attacked Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to do more to stem sales of the synthetic opioid fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>In later remarks, the president told reporters the 10% tariff was a short-term measure and that tariffs could be lifted further in stages to more than 25%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Somebody should have done this with China a long time ago,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The new levy is likely to affect a wide range of goods, from smartphones to children&#8217;s clothing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Agencies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has announced fresh tariffs of 10% on another $300bn of Chinese products from 1 September. The move is the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the two countries. It came after the latest round of bilateral talks showed little sign of a breakthrough. Investors reacted to the news with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":897,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonotarsomoy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}