
- President Donald Trump's approach to US-China trade has been to impose prohibitively high tariffs. While he just gave key tech imports a temporary reprieve, the rest of China's producers still face tariffs of 145%. But if Trump wants to slow China's technological progress, that's the opposite of what he should be doing, an economist says.
President Donald Trump's on-again, off-again tariffs have taken the global economy on a wild ride, but China has been his main target and faces prohibitively high duties.