pressure on china. trump said, "for ten months, china has been paying tariffs to the usa of 25% on $50 billion of high tech and 10% on $200 billion of other goods these payments are partially responsible for our great economic results the 10% will go up to 25% on friday $325 billion of additional goods sent to the u.s. by china remain untaxed but will be shortly at a rate of 25%. the tariffs paid to the usa have little impact on product costs, mostly borne by china. the trade deal with china continues, but too slowly as they attempt to renegotiate.