President Donald Trump said Tuesday (22.04.2025) that the high tariffs imposed on Chinese imports “will be reduced substantially” and was optimistic about the possibility of reaching an agreement between the United States and China.
“We are going to be very friendly, they will also be, and we will see what happens,” Trump told journalists at a press conference in the oval office referring to the Chinese government.
The Republican president said that he would substantially reduce the current 145 % tariff that has implanted China. “It won’t be so high, it won’t be so high,” Trump said.
In addition, he urged Beijing to reach an agreement or, otherwise, he said he “agrees.”
Besent asks “Discard” Commercial war
Trump’s statements occurred shortly after the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, affirmed in a speech on Tuesday that the current tariff conflict against China was unsustainable.
-Besent hopes that there will be a “unreal” in the commercial war between the two largest economies in the world.
The Trump government hopes to close commercial agreements next month with most countries that imposed taxes, but the commercial war unleashed by its aggressive tariff policy focuses on a pulse with China.
Trump said last week to be talking to Chinese representatives to reach an agreement with Beijing in the coming weeks, but on the other side of that pulse, his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping maintains the 125 % tariffs to the United States and has taken other measures, such as vetoing the deliveries of Boeing airplanes.
The US Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, who defended the tariff truce, has joined Besent to influence Trump’s decisions, which has climbed the tariff war following the hard line of his advisor Peter Navarro.
GS (EFE, DPA)
