Trump: “Actively” Talking To China

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he could re-impose “reciprocal” tariffs on some countries in as soon as two or three weeks, a potentially significant re-escalation of the global trade war that has already raised fears of a US and global recession. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight is President Trump's trade war headed for U-turn, an off-ramp, or some dangerous game of high-speed chicken.
0:11.1	Tonight on Laura Coates Live.
0:19.0	It's the tariff roller coaster that just keeps ongoing.
0:22.5	Because tonight, the president is again injecting the thing, the markets, and, well, your 401k don't like it all.
0:29.5	Uncertainty.
0:31.6	How soon do you want to bring the tariffs on Chinese goods?
0:36.2	Well, that depends on them.
0:37.3	Were you worried about what the 145% tariffs were doing to small businesses here in the U.S.?
0:42.3	Is that why you're bringing it down?
0:43.3	No, no.
0:44.3	No, I haven't brought it down.
0:46.3	I haven't brought it.
0:47.3	I haven't brought it down.
0:48.3	But you said in the next few weeks.
0:50.3	I said it's a high tariff.
0:51.3	It is a high tariff. It is a high tariff, but I haven't brought it down. I get along very well with President's in. I hope we can make a deal.
0:55.8	Otherwise, we'll set a price, and hopefully they'll come here and they'll contribute.
1:01.1	And if they don't, that's okay.
1:04.0	So our terrorists on China coming down or not?
1:08.1	Good luck reading those tea leaves, because it all seemed a lot more clear
1:11.3	yesterday. Remember when the president said this?
1:16.4	145% is very high and it won't be that high. It's not going to be that high. It'll come down
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