Sure, but this lowers US consumer demand for goods produced in China, giving the PRC motivation to seek increased economic ties elsewhere. China is negatively impacted by this in the short term, though they are better equipped to handle it due to actually holding the productive forces in the equation.

It might as well be, except for the theater of it.

“Given that, at the current tariff level, U.S. exports to China are no longer commercially viable, China will not respond to any further tariff hikes by the U.S. on Chinese goods,” the ministry said.

The U.S’ tactics of weaponizing tariffs have become “a joke,” it said in a statement.

“If the U.S. keeps playing the numbers game of tariffs, China will ignore it,”

It's not insignificant by any stretch, but China was far more reliant on the US in the past. That's why they have been building up the Belt and Road Initiative and BRICs, to build up alternative customers in case the US ever made a hard pivot. The PRC is more than willing to ride the gravy train of US money flowing in for as long as it can last, as they can spend that time building up alternative customers, but had this been the 90s this very well may have worked for Trump. Too little too late, though.

Just a small note for clarity, but the US is not demanding a tariff from China. The US is imposing a tariff on goods from China, and US citizens are the ones that pay that. It's not like Trump is asking China to fork over a bunch of money. He's telling Americans that if they want Chinese goods they are going to have to pay even more. In theory, this would cause Americans to buy less of these goods because essentially they can't afford them, and therefore China suffers, but money coming from the US is probably not going to affect China the way that increased tariffs will affect Americans.

More like a kid trying to give a teacher detention

Sell the bonds and make maga cry harder. 'It worked for Japan and Canada.

Their response:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/business/hong-kong-suspends-postal-service-to-us-intl-hnk/index.html

Cuba.

We'll get the Cuban Funko Pop Crisis if all the treats are diverted there. That's treats too close to the US border.

Was China not trading with Korea and Cuba already? Its not like those two alone can replace the US.

Half to a third of the U.S. The rest of us know full well how bad this is. I really hope Cali puts its tariff exemptions in place and Oregon and Washington follow suit because otherwise we're going to see the worst recession in the country's history

Always announced never implemented.

Trump is like an idiot bully who insists he commands ten big thugs! No twenty! No thirty and with guns! No thirty with guns and grenades and a tank!

They mean nothing.

But they are providing ample opportunity for places like China to show that they DO have real power.

It won't hit all at once for a lot of different reasons. Retailers' back stock is not subject to tariff because it has already been imported. Raw material lead times for products assembled in the US will be longer than products imported ready for store shelves. Apple recently made the news for importing planefuls of iPhones the weekend before the tariff was applied. Smaller businesses won't be able to do stuff like that, but big corporations will have likely done similar things to soften/slow price increases. And, until additional duties go into effect worldwide, lots of companies had already diversified their manufacturing out of China for US-bound products because of the already existing tariffs from Trump's first term.

But once the companies have to pay the higher price, so will we all.

It's going to be based on when retailers pay the price. Most retailers have inventory from before the tarrifs still.