Threat of reciprocal tax on China, India

The Telegraph
March 10, 2018

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose a "reciprocal tax" on countries such as China and India if they do not match America's tariff.

Trump has, in recent days, spoken a number of times about the 50 per cent duty that India levies on high-end motorbikes that Harley-Davidson, an American company, sells in India. He has repeatedly insisted that the US levies "zero" duty - or "nothing" - on motorbikes imported from India.

"We're going to be doing a reciprocal tax programme, at some point so that if China is going to charge us 25 per cent or if India is going to charge us 75 per cent and we charge them nothing," he said on Thursday while levying a 25 per cent tariff on steel and a 10 per cent tariff on aluminium from all countries except Canada and Mexico.

"They are 50, they are 75 or they are 25, we are going to be doing the same numbers. It's called reciprocal. It's a mirror of tags. So they charge us 50, we would charge them 50," Trump said.

The US President said the stage for the imposition of reciprocal tax has been set in the first year of his administration. He said American companies had not been treated fairly by other countries.

Referring to a tweet by Tesla chief Elan Musk, Trump said China charges 25 per cent duty on American cars whereas it is just 2.5 per cent on import of Chinese cars into the US.

Trump said the "reciprocal tax" would ensure "fair trade deals" for the US.

"China says it's got 2 per cent, but it sends much more. We're going to have a great relationship, hopefully, with China, but we have to do something. We are losing with China $500 billion a year. We have to do something," Trump said during the signing ceremony. PTI

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