Trump doubles steel and aluminium tariffs and threatens China and its ‘shoddy' exports in latest trade war escalation
DONALD Trump has announced he will double the tariffs on steel and aluminium imports to 50 per cent in his latest trade war escalation.
It comes after the president's blistering global tariffs were reinstated by a federal appeals court - just a day after they were ruled illegal and sensationally blocked.
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While addressing workers at a US Steel plant in Pennsylvania, Trump said: "We're going to bring it from 25 per cent to 50 per cent, the tariffs on steel into the United States of America.
"Nobody's going to get around that."
Shortly after, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that the elevated rate would also apply to aluminum, with the new tariffs "effective Wednesday, June 4th."
Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on allies and adversaries alike in moves that have rocked the world trade order.
But they became a brief legal setback earlier this week when a court ruled Trump had overstepped his authority.
However, an appellate court on Thursday said the tariffs could continue while the litigation moves forward.
The Court of Appeals released no official reasoning for the shifting decision.
The reinstating of many of the sweeping taxes mean Trump can continue collecting tariffs under emergency powers law for the time being.
Trump has always said he will appeal and take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
Trump memorably held up a board showing rates he was about to set for individual trading partners in the White House's Rose Garden when he announced the tariffs as part of a "liberation day".
China was clobbered with 34 per cent tariffs, Vietnam 46 per cent, Thailand 36 per cent and Cambodia 49 per cent.
Tariffs on China were eventually increased to a whopping 145 per cent as Trump sought to begin negotiations.
Washington and Beijing then signed a trade deal agreement, which Trump has now said was violated by China.
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