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Informist, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025

NEW DELHI – Ending months of truce in a trade war between the world's two largest economies, US President Donald Trump Friday announced an additional 100% tariff on China after Beijing expanded export controls on rare earths earlier this week. The US will levy an extra 100% tariff on imports from China, along with export controls on "any and all critical software" from Nov. 1, Trump said, adding that the measures could be implemented sooner, "depending on any further actions or changes taken by China".

"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," Trump said in a post on the Truth Social platform. "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".

China, earlier this week, increased its export controls over rare earth minerals, which are vital for the production of several electronic items, semiconductors, motor vehicles, and fighter jets. Trump's latest tariff announcement could re-ignite a trade war, which earlier this year saw the two countries imposing steep retaliatory tariffs on each other. Relations between Washington and Beijing had improved in recent months and both the sides had reduced the large tariff. The US currently imposes a 30% tariff on Chinese goods but the rate varies from different products. 

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping were scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea later this month, but the US president said, "Now there seems to be no reason to do so."  End

Reported by Shubham Rana

Edited by Akul Nishant Akhoury

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