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Fortune
Jason Ma

To slow China's tech advances, Trump should keep its factories addicted to cheap exports via low tariffs, economist says

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  • 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.

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