Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Chinese goods

I've found that U. S. Makes sense, right?. President Donald Trump threatened Monday morning to impose an additional 50 percent tariff on Chinese goods if China does not lift the 34 percent tariff on all U. S. imports announced on Friday. Trump's announcement was the latest escalation in an ongoing trade conflict that has roiled markets to three straight sessions. But On April 2, Trump announced plans to impose a 10% tariff on all imports and impose different "reciprocal" tariffs according to the situation of each country. The 24 per cent reciprocal tariff on China, combined with the 20 per cent tariff imposed in February, brings the total tariff on Chinese imports to 54 per cent, which will take effect on April 9. Trump reiterated in a post on the "Truth Social" website on Monday morning: "Any country that retaliates against the United States and imposes additional tariffs on top of its prolonged abuse of tariffs will immediately be subject to substantial increases, which will be much higher than the tariffs originally set. Furthermore " Trump wrote: "Therefore, if China does not is able tocel its 34% tariff increase. by tomorrow, April 8, 2025, the United States will impose an additional 50% tariff on China from April 9. " Trump added: "All negotiations with China to talks with us on their demands will be terminated!" once implemented, U. But S. But tariffs on Chinese imports will reach 104 percent on April 9. China's 34 percent retaliatory tariff on U. S. imports will take effect on April 10. But Equity Research Analyst the report says u. S. tariffs will affect U. I've found that According to research S. chemical producers primarily by affecting demand rather than trade. And I've found that Jefferies Group (Jefferies LLC) equity analyst Lawrence Alexander (Laurence Alexander) pointed out in a research report released on April 3: "to chemicals, the most crucial impact of US tariff policy is on demand. Net impact. " Morgan Stanley & Co. Additionally LLC equity analyst Vincent Andrews (Vincent Andrews) similarly focused on demand in a research consider released April 4. Based on my observations, Andrews said: "The chemical sector serves a diverse range of end markets, with a elevated levels in agriculture, automotive, construction, consumer durables, consumer essentials (packaging), electronics, healthcare, general sector, etc. And In particular Therefore, we believe that the impact of tariffs on demand in these different end markets is likely to be the most crucial [key performance indicator], especially to those items that are net imports of the United States. " andrews pointed out that the most relevant imported items to the companies Morgan Stanley analysts are looking at include: fertilizers, mainly from the Middle East; crop chemical inputs and general crop chemicals, mainly from India and China; lithium, mainly from South America and Australia, however the lithium in batteries also comes from China; methylene diphenyl isocyanate and epoxy resin, mainly from China.