China responded to United States president Donald Trump’s threat of an additional 50% tariff on Monday (April 7, 2025) by announced it is increasing its levies on goods imported from the US to 84% from this Thursday (April 10). This is a 50% increase from the 34% tariff announced last Friday (April 4) in retaliation to Trump’s reciprocal tariffs of 34% on China that will go into effect on April 9.
With all the tariffs stacked up, including the latest one announced by Trump on Monday, China is faced with a 104% tax that is comprised of the 20% announced in March this year, which was then followed by a 34% reciprocal tariff and another 50%, all of which goes into effect today.
The announcement of the 84% on US imports was made by China’s office of the tariff commission of the state council, which is part of its ministry of finance. In a separate release also issued today, it said (as translated), “the US’ practice of escalating tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake, which seriously infringes on China’s legitimate rights and interests, seriously damages the rules-based multilateral trading system, and seriously impacts the stability of the global economic order.
“It is a typical example of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying,” it continued. “China urges the US to immediately correct its wrong practices, cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China and properly resolve differences with China through equal dialogue on the basis of mutual respect,” ended the release.
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