Today's news brief: The Biden administration has imposed heavy taxes on China, and Trump says to add another 10%.
As of 2024, the Biden administration's tariff policy on Chinese goods is as follows:
- Electric Vehicles (EVs): 100%
- Semiconductors: Expected to increase from 25% to 50% by 2025.
- Steel and Aluminum: Some products currently face a 25% tariff, and the government intends to triple the tariffs on other products with trade review support.
- Solar Cells: To increase to 50% starting in 2024, previously 25%.
- Lithium-Ion Electric Vehicle Batteries: Tariffs have been raised to 25%.
- Critical Minerals: Tariffs on certain minerals will increase to 25%.
- Medical Products:
- Respirators and Masks: Tariffs increased to 25%.
- Syringes and Needles: Tariffs are now 100%.
- Rubber Medical Gloves: To increase to 50% in 2025, and to 100% in 2026.
- Cranes: 25%.
Trump may possibly add another 60% on top of that.
It reminds me of a poem:
When autumn comes on September 8, my flowers bloom while the hundred flowers perish.
The fragrant array rises through Chang'an, the entire city is adorned in golden armor.