US-China trade war escalates as Trump announces 100% additional tariff on Chinese imports

“Starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software,” Trump said.

He said the decision was prompted by reports that China intends to impose wide-ranging export restrictions on nearly all its products, describing the move as “a moral disgrace” in its dealings with other countries.

“It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.”

Trump further stated that the US would implement export controls on all critical software starting November 1, asserting that this measure applied solely to American policy and not to other nations facing similar threats.

Trump hints at cancelling meeting with Xi

In a separate post earlier, Trump threatened to cancel his scheduled meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping. “I was to meet President Xi in two weeks, at APEC, in South Korea, but now there seems to be no reason to do so,” he said.

He said: “They [China] are becoming very hostile, and sending letters to countries throughout the World, that they want to impose Export Controls on each and every element of production having to do with Rare Earths, and virtually anything else they can think of, even if it’s not manufactured in China.”

Trump also said that things were no longer “routine at all” and that he had not spoken to President Xi because “there was no reason to do so”.

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