President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will not reduce the 145% tariff rate on China, rejecting Beijing’s request to ease trade tensions. While other nations received a temporary reprieve from Trump’s new reciprocal tariffs last month, China’s rate remains the highest, prompting a 125% retaliatory tariff on U.S. goods.
Asked directly whether he would scale back the tariffs to jumpstart negotiations, Trump said simply, “No.”
Trump’s comments came during the Oval Office swearing-in of David Perdue as U.S. ambassador to China. Earlier, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Congress the administration might exempt childcare-related goods, like Chinese-made car seats, but Trump walked back that idea, saying he didn’t want “so many exemptions that nobody knows what’s doing.”
Top trade officials Scott Bessent and Jamieson Greer will meet with Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Geneva this week. Trump has made tariff pressure a cornerstone of his trade policy, saying it protects national security and forces countries to negotiate on U.S. terms.
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