U.S. President Trump announced at the White House on Wednesday that a 25% tariff would be imposed on all imported cars. He also said that he could consider "reducing tariffs on China a little" in exchange for China's approval of the sale of TikTok to a U.S. company.
Reuters reported that Trump said: "Maybe I'll give them a little bit of a reduction in tariffs or something to get it done, you know, because every little bit of tariffs is worth more than TikTok."
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, has until April 5 to find a buyer outside of China or face a US ban over national security concerns.
This station previously reported that the U.S. Congress passed a bill last year requiring TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to divest its ownership of TikTok within a deadline, otherwise the app would be banned in the United States. After taking office, Trump signed an order delaying the implementation of the ban.
At a regular press conference on the 27th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun, referring solely to the US's planned 25% tariff on imported cars, stated that there are no winners in trade wars or tariff wars. He criticized the US approach, saying it violates WTO rules, undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system and the common interests of people of all countries, and is unhelpful in resolving its own problems.
