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Trump’s Blanket of Tariffs Aims at All Goods En-route from China

President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order on the Administration’s tariff plans at a “Make America Wealthy Again” event, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in the White House Rose Garden. (Photo: Official White House/Daniel Torok)

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By Lillian Zheng

April 4, 2025
3:50 pm
Los Angeles, CA

Despite of delays, negotiations, and world diplomacy, the new King of Tariffs triggered his economic war, targeting almost every production-worthy country, including some remote and frozen islands. On April 2, 2025, each country received its share of tariff should it export something to the U.S., at least 10 percent for everybody, including the U.S. enduring ally, the United Kingdom. Tariffs reach as high as 40-50 percent for countries involved in the largest trade with the U.S. China will now see an effective tariff of 54 percent, slapping an additional 34 percent on top of an original 20 percent tariff. Trump is putting into motion his promised campaign to revive U.S. manufacturing and goods made in America. Overseas imports, predominantly from China, have been largely replacing U.S. goods, especially since Clinton pushed for the

Despite of delays, negotiations, and world diplomacy, the new King of Tariffs triggered his economic war, targeting almost every production-worthy country, including some remote and frozen islands.

On April 2, 2025, each country received its share of tariff should it export something to the U.S., at least 10 percent for everybody, including the U.S. enduring ally, the United Kingdom. Tariffs reach as high as 40-50 percent for countries involved in the largest trade with the U.S. China will now see an effective tariff of 54 percent, slapping an additional 34 percent on top of an original 20 percent tariff.

Trump is putting into motion his promised campaign to revive U.S. manufacturing and goods made in America. Overseas imports, predominantly from China, have been largely replacing U.S. goods, especially since Clinton pushed for the U.S.-China trade agreement in 2000.

While the world is shocked by Trump’s tariffs, anger, frustration and fears engulfed the internet and Wall Street, China claimed that retaliation is underway. Beijing’s communist government is also facing the fact that Trump is closing doors for all direct and indirect exports into America.

Not long ago, when the Biden administration prohibited Artificial Intelligence (AI) leader, Nvidia, from selling cutting-edge U.S. technologies to China, the company repackaged their AI chips and exported via Taiwan. U.S. chips then fed the Chinese communist army, strengthening their AI applications and boosting their invasion worldwide.

Americans learn quickly. The goods made in China can also be shipped directly or indirectly to U.S. soil through other countries, evading the tariff for profits.

No country can produce things faster, massively, and in-line with ‘quality’ than China. Mexico exports vehicles and car parts to the U.S. market, but tracing their origins further may land you in mainland China. The parts might partially or fully crafted in mainland China, transporting to Mexico before being shipped to America. According to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade: China’s export of parts and accessories of the motor vehicles to Mexico was US$3.77 Billion in 2023. Those are just official numbers.

Amidst global anger, we may only see the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how Trump’s new tariff blocks the complex network of trade with a major source of production, China.

As a lifetime businessman, Trump understands the ins and outs of business; good or bad, loss and profit. If he wants to stop cheap foreign goods from flooding the U.S. market competing with American businesses, he would stop the source of overseas supply chains— China, with its environmental hazards, underpaid labor, tortuous Chinese factories and forced labor camps, in some cases, practices like forced organ harvesting.

Trump’s decision could not be singular or short-sighted; the world is yet to understand his deals, but nearly 80-million Americans elected him to implement his policy and he is delivering. The president of the United States is often considered the most powerful person in the world, and Trump may be unstoppable.