{"id":16187,"date":"2025-04-08T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16187"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:56:50","slug":"white-house-to-implement-104-percent-tariffs-on-china-leavitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16187","title":{"rendered":"White House to Implement 104 Percent Tariffs on China: Leavitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/white-house-to-implement-104-percent-tariffs-on-china-leavitt\/\">https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/white-house-to-implement-104-percent-tariffs-on-china-leavitt\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by\u00a0Ben Whedon<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House will impose a 104% tariff on Chinese goods after Beijing failed to meet President Donald Trump\u2019s noon deadline to withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President also wanted me to tell all of you that if China reaches out to make a deal, he\u2019ll be incredibly gracious, but he\u2019s going to do what\u2019s best for the American people,\u201d White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday. \u201cChina has to call first. The Chinese want to make a deal. They just don\u2019t know how to do it. But the President will be implementing these 104% tariffs on China tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has already imposed tariffs on China and the additional 50% follows the Chinese response to his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs. The U.S. will begin to collect revenues on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th. Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated!\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/economy\/trump-threatens-additional-50-tariffs-china-it-fights-his-trade-efforts\">Trump vowed<\/a>\u00a0on Monday. \u201cNegotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Whedon is a reporter for Just the News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.1;color: #aaa\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/economy\/white-house-enacts-104-tariffs-chinese-goods-report\">Just the News<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/white-house-to-implement-104-percent-tariffs-on-china-leavitt\/\">White House to Implement 104 Percent Tariffs on China: Leavitt<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\">The Star News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/white-house-to-implement-104-percent-tariffs-on-china-leavitt\/ by\u00a0Ben Whedon \u00a0 The White House will impose a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":16046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16188,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16187\/revisions\/16188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}