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Trump has to get whatever he can from China, he can't keep the trade war going, as it's hurting his approval numbers bigtime, and scaring the hell out of Wall St.
Regardless of how things go when the trade teams meet next month, Trump will spin the meeting as great news, even if no progress is made on the important differences, and use his headline to delay this new October 15th tariff deadline, and then back away further from the trade war he started.
China is giving him an exit ramp and he's taking it.
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Not a surprise at all. I said this would happen.US President Donald Trump has postponed the introduction of higher tariffs on Chinese goods until October 15 on the request of China’s vice premier and as a “gesture of good will”.
Mr Trump said in two*tweets on Wednesday evening that the increase in tariffs on $250bn worth of Chinese goods originally scheduled for October 1 would be pushed back as the original date coincides with the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.
He said that vice-premier Liu He had made the request to delay that date from which the higher tariffs would be imposed. Tariffs on Chinese imports were set to increase to 30 per cent from 25 per cent.*
China’s offshore renminbi strengthened 0.2 per cent versus the dollar in response to the tweet and S&P 500 futures jumped 0.5 per cent.
The move by the US president follows a*gesture by China on Wednesday to exempt 16 types of US goods from import tariffs ahead of the latest round of talks.
Trump has to get whatever he can from China, he can't keep the trade war going, as it's hurting his approval numbers bigtime, and scaring the hell out of Wall St.
Regardless of how things go when the trade teams meet next month, Trump will spin the meeting as great news, even if no progress is made on the important differences, and use his headline to delay this new October 15th tariff deadline, and then back away further from the trade war he started.
China is giving him an exit ramp and he's taking it.
EDIT: If you can't read the FT article because of cookies, you can read an identical one at the Hill here: Trump delays increase in China tariffs until Oct. 15 | TheHill
Note to mods: If that doesn't meet the criteria for the BN rules, feel free to retitle the thread with the Hill headline.
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