billions of dollars were in tariffs on china beijing lies straight back coming up we'll see how andre babiche the second richest man in the czech republic is shaking up his country's political landscape. this is your business update i'm going home free in berlin glad you could join me well the trade around just moved up a few notches as u.s. president trump hits china hard beijing hitting straight back with tariffs of its own and lynn is adding fuel to the far as well although the heat mostly coming from washington on friday with trump announcing a twenty five percent tariffs on over a thousand chinese products mainly from next month now they include high tech safari much taking aim at beijing's ambitions to transition to a tech economy now they add up to a total of around fifty billion dollars in punitive tariffs for what dawdle chant calls unfair trade practices the european union is hitting back against the previous us cheese and seal in allegheny and by imposing levies on american goods worth about three point three billion dollars included on that tariff hitlist bluejeans whiskey and mot