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White House: Trump Wishes He'd Boosted China Tariffs Higher

Ken Bredemeier

   U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he had "second thoughts" about
   escalating his reciprocal tariff war with China, but the White House
   quickly clarified that he meant that was because he did not raise the
   taxes even more than he did.

   Last week, before heading to France for the Group of 7 summit of the
   leaders of some of the world's leading economies, Trump boosted tariffs
   on $550 billion worth of Chinese products shipped to the United States
   after Beijing said it would raise tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S.
   exports to China, which itself was in retaliation to an earlier Trump
   tariff hike.

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