• China’s finance ministry on Friday said it will impose a 34% tariff on all goods imported from the U.S. starting on April 10.
  • The ministry criticized Washington’s decision to impose 34% of additional reciprocal levies on China — bringing total U.S. tariffs against the country to 54% — as “inconsistent with international trade rules.”
  • U.S. stock futures and European markets fell sharply on news of the reciprocal tariffs.

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  • suoko@feddit.it
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    2 days ago

    Who’s gonna benefit from all this extra taxes? Public services will sky rocket in 2025!

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      The people who pay taxes don’t have extra money to pay extra taxes, so they will not be able to pay extra taxes and no extra tax will be collected.

      Nobody benefits.

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      It will be used to bail out companies, who struggle to financially survive. The money will go to the higher managements though.