US poised to extend tariffs to all Chinese imports if Trump-Xi meeting fails
2018-10-30 09:38:41 source：South China Morning Post
October 30, 2018
The US is preparing to announce by early December tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail to ease the trade war, three people familiar with the matter said.
An early-December announcement of a new product list would mean the effective date – after a 60-day public comment period – may coincide with China’s Lunar New Year holiday in early February. The list would apply to the imports that aren’t already covered by previous rounds of tariffs – which may be US$257 billion using last year’s import figures, according to two of the people.
US officials are preparing for such a scenario in case a planned Trump-Xi meeting yields no progress on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires in November, according to two of the people, who declined to be identified to discuss internal deliberations. They cautioned that final decisions had not been made.
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