100% China tariff threat (never formalized — withdrawn)
In October 2025, after China announced new rare-earth export controls, the president threatened an additional 100% tariff on all Chinese goods effective November 1, 2025. No executive order, Federal Register notice, or CBP guidance ever followed: the threat was defused weeks later by the Kuala Lumpur truce. A textbook example of why signal strength matters — importers who repriced on the headline alone absorbed costs for a measure that never existed.
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Defused by the Kuala Lumpur truce
The truce arrangement supersedes the threat; the 100% tariff is never imposed.
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100% tariff threatened via social media
Post threatens an additional 100% tariff on China from November 1 in response to rare-earth export controls. Markets drop sharply; no instrument follows.
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Last verified 06/12/2026
Related measures
IEEPA fentanyl tariffs on China (struck down)
Tariffs on Chinese goods imposed in February 2025 over fentanyl trafficking: 10% at first, raised to 20% in March 2025, then cut back to 10% in November 2025 under the U.S.–China trade truce. The Supreme Court's February 2026 IEEPA ruling voided them entirely. As of June 2026 Washington and Beijing have discussed restoring equivalent tariffs under other authorities, but nothing has been formalized.
Section 301 tariffs on China (Lists 1–4A and 2024 strategic increases)
The original China tariffs: 25% on roughly $250B of imports (Lists 1–3) and 7.5% on List 4A, in force since 2018–2020, plus the 2024 four-year-review increases on strategic sectors — including 100% on EVs, 50% on solar cells and semiconductors, and 25% on lithium-ion batteries. These survived the IEEPA ruling untouched and remain the bedrock of U.S.–China tariff exposure. USTR initiated a second statutory four-year review in May 2026.
Current rate: 25% (Lists 1–3); 7.5% (List 4A); strategic-sector increases incl. 100% EVs, 50% solar cells and semiconductors, 25% lithium-ion batteries
Section 301 product exclusions (extended through November 10, 2026)
Exclusions that exempt specific products — mostly machinery and manufacturing inputs — from Section 301 China tariffs. As part of the November 2025 trade truce they were extended through November 10, 2026. Importers relying on an exclusion face a hard repricing if it lapses with the truce.
Current rate: 0% additional duty for excluded products (otherwise 25%)
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