The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Friday that he will impose an additional 100% tariff on China as of November 1, a country he accuses of having adopted an “extremely hostile” trade stance by wanting to impose controls on the export of rare earths.
“It has just become known that China has adopted an extremely aggressive stance on trade by sending an extremely hostile letter to the world declaring that, starting November 1, 2025, he will impose large-scale export controls on virtually every product he makes, and even some he doesn’t even make,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social network.
In his message he did not clarify which letter he was referring to or which countries it was sent to, as he did initially. post published hours before.
The measure that, according to Trump, China will adopt, “affects all countries, without exception, and it was obviously a plan devised by them years ago.
“It is absolutely unheard of in international trade and a moral shame in dealing with other nations,” said the president who has imposed a global tariff of 10% and other specific taxes on each country.
In this regard, he considers that China “has adopted this unprecedented stance“and, therefore, “as of November 1, 2025 Washington”will impose a 100% tariff to China, in addition to any tariffs you are currently paying”
Furthermore, from that date, “it will impose export controls to all key software.
In any case, I could advance that measure depending on the decisions you make.
In a previous message, the US president had stated that he no longer has reason to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as planned, and threatened with a “huge increase” of tariffs for products from the Asian country.
“Very strange things are happening in China! They are becoming very hostile and sending letters to countries around the world announcing that they want to impose export controls on all rare earth related production items and pretty much anything else they can think of, even if it is not made in China,” he wrote.
In that first message, He also did not clarify what type of controls does not refer or to which nations China has sent that letter, but said that “other countries have contacted” the White House “outraged by this great commercial hostility.”
In his long message he denounced that “China should not be allowed to hold the world ‘captive’, but that seems to have been its plan for a long time,” especially by those known as “rare earth magnets.”
These permanent magnets are extremely powerful and are made from alloys of elements known as rare earth elements, mainly neodymium, samarium and cobalt. They have multiple industrial and technological applications due to their power, efficiency and small size.
Trump’s statements reflect the biggest disagreement with China since both powers began to negotiate a reduction in tariffs after the trade war worsened last April by the Republicans.
Trump and Xi held a phone call on September 18 in which they approved a preliminary agreement to allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States and agreed to meet at the end of October in South Korea during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit.