“Extraordinarily aggressive attitude”
Trump continues to escalate the dispute with China
Updated 10/11/2025 – 2:43 amReading time: 3 minutes
The USA wants to impose a further 100 percent tariffs on Chinese products from November 1st. President Donald Trump announced this on Friday (local time).
US President Donald Trump has announced additional tariffs of 100 percent on imports from China to the US. These would be collected from November 1st – or earlier depending on China’s further actions – the Republican wrote on his Truth Social platform and justified the project with China’s current trade policy. “It has just been revealed that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive stance on trade by sending an extremely hostile letter to the world,” Trump wrote.
There is currently a pause in the customs dispute between China and the USA, which escalated in the spring. In April, both countries imposed surcharges of more than 100 percent on imports from the other country.
In his post, Trump also announced export controls for all important software from November 1st. He did not give any further details. The so-called export controls are mostly export bans that the government can lift in individual cases. This allows a country to influence which products end up in other countries.
“It has just been revealed that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive stance on trade by sending an extremely hostile letter to the world,” Trump wrote, alluding to Beijing’s decision to tighten controls on rare earth exports. This “came out of nowhere” and could paralyze world trade and harm many countries. The People’s Republic is becoming increasingly “hostile,” said Trump. In his new post, he specified that from November onwards, China had, among other things, announced export controls on almost all of the products it produces.
The so-called rare earths are extremely important for electronics from smartphones to televisions as well as in car production and the defense industry. China plays a central role in the global supply of minerals.
Hours earlier, Trump had questioned his planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea with reference to the ongoing trade conflict. He was supposed to meet Xi at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit at the end of October – “but now there seems to be no reason for it,” the Republican wrote on Truth Social on Friday.
In another arena of the trade conflict, the government in Beijing announced on Friday retaliatory measures for US tariffs, which will also come into force on Tuesday. According to the Chinese Ministry of Transport, port fees would be charged for ships with a connection to the US. The US fees are “clearly discriminatory,” the ministry said.
