US President Donald Trump plans to impose 10% tariff on China from Feb 1

In response to a question, the newly sworn in US President said he is looking at February 1 as the date for the tariffs.

“For Mexico and China, we’re talking about approximately 25 per cent (tariff),” the president said. PTI LKJ Responding to another query, Trump said he did not “talk too much about tariffs” when he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week.

Further, Trump said that China has not “done very much” to stop the ongoing war in Ukraine, when asked a question about Xi Jinping’s intervention in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

“He’s got a lot of power. I said you ought to get it settled. I had that talk with President Xi the other day too. I said we don’t want that crap in our country. We’ve got to stop it. I would have stopped it. I had to deal with him where he was going to give the maximum penalty, which in China is death penalty, for drug dealing and he was all set,” Trump said.

“He was going to give the maximum penalty to fentanyl dealers if they send (the staff) to the United States. And of course, Biden didn’t pick that up. I had that deal all done. It was all wrapped up,” he added.

“We were going to get it done and then the election went — let’s put it nicely. It didn’t go the proper way. I’m trying to be nice about it. It (election) was rigged and we had an incompetent president elected who never followed up on that deal,” Trump said.

He added that if there was death penalty, “they wouldn’t be sending fentanyl to Mexico, Canada and other places”.

(With inputs from PTI)

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