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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Michael Howie,Nicholas Cecil,Jonathan Prynn and Daniel Keane

Global trade war escalates as Trump threatens China with '104% tariffs'

Donald Trump’s tariffs were sweeping global markets like a wrecking ball on Black Monday and he upped the ante by threatening China with a further 50% hike in import levies.

A senior White House official confirmed that with previous hikes in tariffs on China, the total Beijing was now being threatened with would be 104%.

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