{"id":2077,"date":"2019-06-21T06:55:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2019-06-21T06:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:55:32","slug":"trump-threatened-to-increase-tariffs-on-at-least-another-usd-300-billion-worth-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/trump-threatened-to-increase-tariffs-on-at-least-another-usd-300-billion-worth-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatened to increase tariffs on at least another USD 300 billion worth goods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>US President Donald\nTrump&nbsp;<\/strong>has threatened that the<strong>&nbsp;US would hit China<\/strong>&nbsp;with\ntariffs on at least anothe<strong>r\n$300 billion worth of Chinese goods.&nbsp;<\/strong>While Trump on 6 June\nsaid that talks with China were ongoing, no face-to-face meetings have been\nheld since May 10.&nbsp;<br>\nOn May 10, the US sharply increased tariffs on a<strong>&nbsp;$200 billion<\/strong>&nbsp;list\nof Chinese goods to 25% for which Beijing retaliated.<br>\nTensions between the two countries have risen\nsharply since talks aimed at ending a festering trade war broke down in early\nMay.<br><br><strong>IMF\nwarns:<\/strong><br>\nThe&nbsp;<strong>International\nMonetary Fund (IMF)<\/strong>&nbsp;has warned that escalating tariff\nthreats<strong>&nbsp;reduce\nbusiness and market confidence&nbsp;<\/strong>and it could slow global\ngrowth that is currently expected to<strong>&nbsp;improve\nin 2020.<\/strong>Regarding this issue, the US Treasury Secretary Steven\nMnuchin is scheduled to meet People&#8217;s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang at a\ngathering of G20 finance leaders in Japan. This will be the first face-to-face\ndiscussion between key negotiators in nearly a month.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump&nbsp;has threatened that the&nbsp;US would hit China&nbsp;with tariffs on at least another $300 billion worth of Chinese goods.&nbsp;While Trump on 6 June said that talks with China were ongoing, no face-to-face meetings have been held since May 10.&nbsp; On May 10, the US sharply increased tariffs on a&nbsp;$200 billion&nbsp;list of Chinese goods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions\/2079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}