The confrontation of US rates continues, with the White House, affirming on Tuesday, April 15, which “The ball is on the court of China”, Since Beijing maintains the pressure by suspending Boeing’s deliveries.
Donald Trump “has again made it quite clear that he is open to an agreement with China, but China needs to make an agreement with the United States of America,” not the other way around, said White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt to the press. According to her, “China moves what we have, each country wants what we have: the American consumer. Or, to put it in another way, they need our money.”
For Leavitt, it depends on China to end the commercial war between the two largest economies in the world, initiated by Trump with meaning tariff increases that severely treach financial markets.
On Wednesday, China said that “is not afraid” or a commercial war with the United States, while requested dialogue after the White House statements. “If the United States really wants to solve the problem through dialogue and negotiation, it should stop exerting extreme pressure, stop threatening and blackmailing, and talking to China on the basis, respect and mutual benefit, spoke to Lin, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, spoke, Spoke Affairs.
Previously, China launched its economic results, a 5.4% show in the first quarter of 2025. This was stronger than expected, particularly because exporters rushed to send their products before the US surxis takes effect.
He also announced the appointment of a new main negotiator for commercial conversations. Li Chenggang has replaced Cheek Shouw, who participated in the negotiations that led to the 2020 trade agreement between China and the United States.
‘Pressure’ about China
An official of the China National Statistics Office declared that tariffs are exercising “pressure” on the Chinese economy and foreign trade. Beijing, which systematically represents against the American surveys, has suspended all the reception of aircraft manufactured by the American company Boeing.
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Trump condemned this movement, affirming on its social network social networks that China “has just given up Boeing’s great agreement, saying that” they will not take possession “of the aircraft.” According to Bloomberg News, China asked the country’s airlines to “stop the purchases of equipment and pieces related to the aircraft of US companies.”
Beijing also seems determined to attack American agriculture: Australian station ABC reported that Australian beef exports to China had increased significantly, while US exporters have not seen their licenses renew. Asked by the France-Presse agency, the US Export Federation. UU. Confirmed that most of the licenses of beef exporters have not been renewed since March 16.
Hong Kong’s postal service announced Wednesday that it would suspend packages to the US.
The new fronts opened by Trump in their offensive rate, aimed at certain minerals and electronic items, weighed in the Asian stock markets on Wednesday morning, with technological actions that suffer partly part due to restrictions to the American giant Nvidia. The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, continues his tour in Southeast Asia on Wednesday in Malaysia, seeking to organize a coordinated response with neighboring countries to US tariffs.
EU in a ‘strong position’
China and the United States have entered an escalation of tariffs: Washington has imposed an area of 145% on Chinese products that intertwine their territory since Trump’s return to the White House. Beijing has countered with an output surface that now reaches 125%.
The US president mitigated his statements exempting computers, smartphones and other electronic products, as well as semiconductors, most of which come from China. For all other countries, reciprocal tariffs above a 10% threshold have stopped on their legs for 90 days, and the White House opened the negotiation.
South Korea, an important exhibition or cars and semiconductors to the United States, announced Wednesday that it is the Minister of Finance, Choi Sang-Mok, would travel to Washington next week to his counterpart, Scott Besent. In the next negotiations, the European Union is “very well located,” insisted the president of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der, in an interview with the German magazine Die,
Another country in Trump’s Crosshairs, Canada, made a concession to car manufacturers on Tuesday by allowing them to import a certain number of vehicles manufactured in the US. In exchange for their commitment to maintain production in Canada, without tariffs. Ottawa imposed a 25% rate on these products in retaliation for 25% collected by Washington in cars delivered to the United States. According to the Japanese press, the Honda automobile manufacturer is considering moving its Canadian production lines to the United States, a plan that the group has denied.
In addition, Trump has imposed sectoral or 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum. He is considering doing the same for semiconductors and pharmaceutical products “within one or two months”, according to his secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick.
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