{"id":36310,"date":"2018-07-06T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=36310"},"modified":"2018-07-06T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:48:29","slug":"trump-confirms-that-tariffs-against-china-will-take-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/trump-confirms-that-tariffs-against-china-will-take-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump confirms that tariffs against China will take effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump made clear Thursday that US tariffs against Chinese imports will take effect early Friday and that he\u2019s prepared to sharply escalate a trade war between the world\u2019s two biggest economies.<\/p>\n<p>The administration was set to start imposing tariffs at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Friday on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports, a first step in what could become an accelerating series of tariffs. China has promised a swift retaliatory strike on an equal amount of US goods.<\/p>\n<p>After that, the hostilities could intensify: Trump said the US is ready to target an additional $200 billion in Chinese imports _ and then $300 billion more _ if Beijing refuses to yield to US demands and continues to retaliate.<\/p>\n<p>That would bring the total of targeted Chinese goods to potentially $550 billion _ more than the $506 billion in goods that China actually shipped to the United States last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has argued that China has deployed predatory tactics in a push to overtake US technological dominance. These tactics include cyber-theft as well as requiring American companies to hand over technology in exchange for access to China\u2019s market.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump made clear Thursday that US tariffs against Chinese imports will take effect early Friday and that he\u2019s prepared to sharply escalate a trade war between the world\u2019s two biggest economies. The administration was set to start imposing tariffs at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time Friday on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports, a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36312,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36310\/revisions\/36312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}