Trump's Tariff Turnaround

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

After saying his tariff policies "will never change," President Trump announced he was reducing tariffs on imports from China from 145 percent to 30 percent. China, in turn, lowered its retaliatory tariffs. What's next?

Then, previewing the president's upcoming trip to the Middle East.

This episode: political correspondent Sarah McCammon, senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

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1:03.3	I'm Sarah McCammon.
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1:10.1	And today on the show, the U.S. and China have agreed to a pause in the trade war.
1:15.2	Tam, there's been significant movement on tariffs, especially when it comes to China. What's the
1:19.9	latest? Right. So coming into this weekend, U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports had been at 145%. China's tariffs on U.S. imports were at 125%.
1:32.0	You know, it'd been sort of a tit-for-tat retaliatory tariffs until they just got so high that it was
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