Sentences with phrase «officials impose tariffs»

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U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on $ 150 billion in Chinese imports to the United States to punish China for what government officials regard as Beijing's predatory industrial policies and abuse of U.S. intellectual property.

Asked how long Trump would negotiate with Chinese officials before imposing tariffs, Lighthizer said: «We'll see.

Almost immediately after the Trump administration announced its plans to impose tariffs on a broad array of Chinese imports, with an eye towards compelling the Chinese government to address intellectual property theft and other alleged trade abuses, Chinese officials responded by threatening tariffs of their own, shrewdly training their fire on U.S. imports from constituencies crucial to Republican political fortunes.