Trump Says New Tariffs Will Take Effect Immediately If Xi Doesn’t Meet With Him at G20

Trump Says New Tariffs Will Take Effect Immediately If Xi Doesn’t Meet With Him at G20
President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing on Marine One, in Washington, on May 30, 2019. Evan Vucci/AP Photo
Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
|Updated:

President Donald Trump said additional tariffs on Chinese goods will go into effect, if Chinese leader Xi Jinping doesn’t meet with him during the upcoming G20 Summit.

In an interview on CNBC on June 10, Trump said that proposed tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods would immediately be imposed in the event that the two leaders do not meet. But he added that he expected his Chinese counterpart would attend.

Cathy He
Cathy He
EDITOR
Cathy He is the politics editor at the Washington D.C. bureau. She was previously an editor for U.S.-China and a reporter covering U.S.-China relations.
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