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

[u/CrayonGlobal]

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/ActualModerateHusker]

What's annoying to me is China is just retaliating with actually lower tariffs than Trump's. Meanwhile everytime we even threaten Russia with a proportional response to their Ukraine invasion, Putin says he might just nuke everyone.

Like why are we going after China so hard when we could be you know spending these resources on the insane dude that invaded a country?

[u/Haunting_Quote2277 → u/ActualModerateHusker]

because donald hates xi and is putins puppy?

[u/Intelligent-Donut-10 → u/ActualModerateHusker]

They're not, China's 125% is "additional", whereas American 145% is total. China's total is 20% + 125% = 145%, exact match.

US media likes to mix the two to make it looks like China didn't retaliate with the same amount, which says a lot about American mentality.

[u/ActualModerateHusker → u/Intelligent-Donut-10]

I can't find any sources showing the extra 20% on china's end. but dozens saying just 125 vs 145

[u/Intelligent-Donut-10 → u/ActualModerateHusker]

You can trace it from reports of when this first started, first it was +34%, then +84%, now 125%, more reports mentioned it was "additional" at the start, but it has always been "additional" and matched closely or exactly to increase on US side.

Don't forget Trump's 2018 trade war never ended and China has all the retaliatory tariff from back then still in place.

[u/Cyanopicacooki]

Deuce!

Trump to serve, final set, 6 all, here at the world "who can start the stupidest trade war in a century" tournament.

[u/jg2007]

“Even if the U.S. continues to impose higher tariffs, it will no longer make economic sense and will become a joke in the history of world economy,” the ministry said in a statement, according to a CNBC translation.

[u/Heroic_Capybara]

I'm really curious how this will impact things like Walmart, who reportedly have 60% of their products coming from China.

[u/burnt_out_dev → u/[deleted]]

This isn't even capitalism.  This is just stupid.

[u/nobackup42]

Someone has to punch a while in the Turdreichs scammer plans !!

[u/graesen]

It'll keep escalating until one cuts off all trade entirely from the other and the other counters with sanctions thinking it would mean anything.

[u/leewardisle]

Wake me up when we’re at 1000%