US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a flight from Palm Beach to Miami on Air Force One on April 12 – Photo: AFP
Early morning of April 14 (Vietnam time), US President Donald Trump warned that no country will escape his punitive tariffs. He posted on the social network Truth Social a post with the following translation:
“No one will escape responsibility for the unfair trade balances and non-monetary tariffs that other countries have used against us. Especially not China…
There were no tariff ‘exceptions’ announced on Friday (April 11). These products are still subject to the current 20% ‘fentanyl tax’, they are just moving to a different tariff group.
The Fake News knows this, but it doesn’t report it. We will be looking at semiconductors and the entire electronics supply chain in upcoming national security tariff investigations.
What is being exposed is this: we need to make our products in America and we cannot allow ourselves to be dictated to by other countries. Especially countries that are hostile to trade…
We also cannot continue to let them abuse us on trade, as they have done for decades. Those days are over!
America’s golden age — with the coming tax and regulatory cuts, a significant portion of which were just approved by the House and Senate — will mean more jobs and higher wages, making products right here in our country, and treating other countries, especially China, the same way they treat us.
The bottom line is our country will be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. We will make America great again!” .
Mr. Trump’s post on social network Truth Social early morning April 14 (Vietnam time) – Screenshot
The US appeared to ease the pressure on April 11 when it announced tariff exemptions for smartphones, laptops, semiconductors and other electronics products that China is a major source of.
Trump warns no country will escape punitive tariffs
The move would benefit US tech giants like Nvidia, Dell and Apple, which manufactures iPhones and other high-end products in China.
However, in a post on Truth Social, Mr Trump asserted that there were “no tariff exemptions” for these items, saying they were still subject to a 20% tariff in a separate tariff group.
Previously, China’s Ministry of Commerce said that the move on April 11 was “just a small step”, and emphasized that the Trump administration should cancel the entire tough tariff policy.
The tit-for-tat tariffs have so far pushed US tariffs on Chinese goods to 145%, while Beijing is imposing retaliatory tariffs of 125% on US imports.
