Trump threatens additional 100% tariff on China
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
President Trump has said he will impose additional 100% import tariffs on Chinese goods by next month, and put export controls on any and all critical software. He said this was in response to China placing new restrictions on exports of crucial rare earth minerals. The news led to US stock markets registering their biggest one-day fall in months. Also: Palestinians in Gaza returning to their homes following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas say they've been shocked by the scale of destruction; the French president, Emmanuel Macron, has reappointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just four days after he resigned from the role; the green turtle has been rescued from the brink of extinction in what scientists are calling a major conservation victory.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:10.8 | Amongker to sign in the early hours of Saturday, October the 11th, these are our main stories. |
| 0:15.9 | President Trump threatens China with additional 100% tariffs over its rare earth export restrictions. |
| 0:22.8 | Palestinians in Gaza are returning to their homes following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, |
| 0:27.5 | so they've been shocked by the scale of destruction. |
| 0:30.7 | The French Prime Minister, Sebastian Le Corno, gets his job back just four days after he resigned. |
| 0:38.2 | Also in this podcast, in a major conservation victory, green turtles have been rescued from the brink of extinction. |
| 0:45.5 | Sea turtles are a really iconic and charismatic species. They inspire people. |
| 0:51.9 | All of that coming up later in the program. |
| 1:07.2 | Donald Trump is locking horns with China again, saying he will impose 100% import tariffs on Chinese goods by next month, |
| 1:12.2 | as well as impose export controls on any and all critical software. |
| 1:17.8 | He says it's a response to China, placing new restrictions on exports of crucial rare earth minerals. China produces most of them, elements that are absolutely critical for US manufacturing. |
| 1:24.6 | President Trump is due to meet China's President Xi on the sidelines of the |
| 1:28.0 | Apex summit, which is in South Korea later this month. He's denied rumors that he's canceled that |
| 1:33.5 | meeting, but said he's shocked by Beijing's actions. I'm going to be there regardless, so I would |
| 1:38.3 | assume we might have it, but, you know, they hit the world with something that really is not anything that people are going to do. |
| 1:47.4 | And it was shocking, I can tell you. |
| 1:50.5 | Well, not so long ago, it seemed that U.S.-China relations were back on track. |
| 1:54.3 | So what prompted Mr. Trump to do this? |
| 1:56.6 | I put that question to our North America correspondent, David Willis. |
| 2:00.6 | That's absolutely right. They did indeed, Anker, and all of a sudden, everything is up in the air again as it was back at the beginning of this year, isn't it? |
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