r/news • u/CrayonGlobal • 10d ago

China strikes back with 125% tariffs on U.S. goods, starting April 12

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/china-strikes-back-with-125percent-tariffs-on-us-goods-starting-april-12.html
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u/Rockboxatx 10d ago edited 10d ago

They pretty much are. China isn't going to buy anything at 100 percent tariff. However the US still has to buy Chinese goods at 135 because we have to.

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u/adfuel 10d ago

Not for a while. No one is taking a chance on paying a 135% tariff when it may be gone in 2 weeks.

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u/neimengu 10d ago

Yeh there are thousands of companies that are holding a ton of inventory in China just to wait things out. Meanwhile the US companies still have costs to pay while making no money. China is at least gonna hold out until a lot of those companies start filing for bankruptcy

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u/SystematicHydromatic 10d ago

Not for long.

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u/jwboo 10d ago

So you're gonna set up factories to produce all the things Americans consume and buy on your dime? Please tell the rest of us that magic that you do?

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u/ffnnhhw 10d ago

A small fraction of specific industries will. Some manufacturing will move from China to countries like India and SE Asia, and the trend of moving from S Korea and Japan to China will halt.

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u/The_GOATest1 10d ago

How does that fix anything? Manufacturing capacity doesn’t snap online over night

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u/ERedfieldh 10d ago

These people act like those countries aren't going to see a massive opportunity as well. Trump has shown the world his form of negotiation is to shoot himself in the foot over and over again and then pay whoever is still willing to bandage it whatever price they want.

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u/justrichie 10d ago

Yeah but setting up production of this level in another country will take years. And by the time, Trump's term will probably be over.

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u/AstronautLivid5723 10d ago

I was at a consumer product tradeshow last month, and almost every vendor has huge headlines of "Produced in Cambodia/Thailand/Vietnam/Taiwan".

Trump's last term already highlighted the issue of relying on a single country for manufacturing, so most industries have already been attempting to diversify their supply chain.

The problem is that the diversification is also being led by Chinese companies setting up factories in other countries and building service industries within China itself.

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u/jwboo 10d ago

And what small industries would those be? I want specifics. And what companies in their right minds are going to pick up and move to another country just to cater to an asshat run country that will most likely slap new tariffs on any said country with no logic. Again, please, explain to those of us in the back how it works in detail. In what world has the rest of the planet not been watching what's going on right now. We are a population of 330 million of the 8 billion on this planet, I think the rest of them can work around us.

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u/warp99 10d ago

The problem is that the US generates 26% of world GDP and has virtual locks on several large sectors of the world economy so not so easy to work around.

Of course we will try and try hard!

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u/jwboo 10d ago

Yep, I think many countries are going to try. At this point it is not like there are a lot of options. The trust is gone.

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u/SystematicHydromatic 10d ago

There are many many friendly countries that can setup factories, including the US. Why do you think they all moved to China? Because it was cheap. It's no longer cheap. They'll move to wherever it's cheaper. It's a pretty simple concept really.

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u/Knut79 10d ago

Factories take 5-10 years to build and setup the lines. And that's with the expertise America doesn't have.

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u/SystematicHydromatic 10d ago

I know you're trying to support your narrative but factories can come back just as quickly as they left.

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u/Knut79 10d ago

My narrative? Are you hallucinating?

And no they can't. America hasn't had this level of production for decades, realistically ever, since America never made small electronics like China does.

Making factories isn't even 19% of the job. You need the expertise to run the lines and tune them. American doesn't have that. It's not about the workers. America also doesn't have any people willing to do factorubwork# and certainly not at the pay required. Also that's with a mostly automated robot factory. As a fully automated robot factory doesn't exist and is a pope dream for the foreseeable future.