Trump rejects China’s demand of decreasing 145% tariff to open negotiations

[ad_1] President Donald Trump stated he is not going to drop tariffs on China to get Beijing to come back to the negotiating desk.

The president mentioned his stance on the tariffs, which he defended, in an interview with NBC's "Meet The Press" recorded Friday from his Mar-a-Lago property. He claimed that

"They stated at the moment they need to discuss. Look, China, and I do not like this. I am not glad about this. China's getting killed proper now," Trump instructed host Kristen Welker. "They're getting completely destroyed. Their factories are closing. Their unemployment goes by way of the roof. I am not trying to try this to China now. On the similar time, I am not seeking to have China make a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} and construct extra ships and extra Military tanks and extra airplanes."

"You are not dropping the tariffs in opposition to China to get them to the negotiating desk?" Welker requested.

Trump responded, "No."

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President Donald Trump speaks within the Cross Corridor of the White Home throughout an occasion on "Investing in America" on April 30, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump was joined by CEOs to focus on their corporations through the occasion. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photographs)

"In some unspecified time in the future, I'll decrease them, as a result of in any other case you might by no means do enterprise with them," he added later. "And so they need to do enterprise very very like their economic system is admittedly doing badly. Their economic system is collapsing."

Trump pushed again on the premise of Welker’s query about whether or not he’d contemplate reduction for small companies. The president stated the NBC host ought to contemplate bigger companies, such because the automobile trade, that "are going to make a fortune" due to his tariff plan. Trump additionally declined to rule out making some tariffs everlasting, claiming the U.S. may count on $9 trillion value of latest investments since he took workplace.

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He famous that Apple and different tech corporations, in addition to automobile companies, resembling Toyota, Honda, Normal Motors and Stellantis, have made multi-billion-dollar commitments to carry their crops to the USA.

The Chinese language authorities has assembled an inventory of American merchandise that may be exempt from its 125% tariffs on U.S. items, Reuters reported last week. Beijing already has exemptions for some U.S. prescription drugs, microchips and plane engines.

Trump additionally declined to rule out a possible recession within the quick time period, although he promised the "best financial increase in historical past."

"Is it okay within the quick time period to have a recession?" Welker requested.

"Look, yeah. . . . All the things's okay," Trump responded, arguing that the U.S. economic system is in a "transition interval" and "we'll do fantastically."

"Are you nervous a few recession?" Welker requested.

President Donald Trump and Chinese language chief Xi Jinping

To that, Trump responded flatly, "No."

"Are you nervous it may occur? Do you suppose it may occur?" she pressed.

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"Something can occur," Trump stated. "However I believe we'll have the best economic system within the historical past of our nation. I believe we'll have the best financial increase in historical past."

Danielle Wallace is a breaking information and politics reporter at Fox Information Digital. Story suggestions will be despatched to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on X: @danimwallace .