{"id":133846,"date":"2025-08-01T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133846"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:41:34","slug":"taiwans-lai-vows-to-lower-us-tariff-rate-as-trumps-20-sparks-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133846","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s Lai vows to lower US tariff rate as Trump\u2019s 20% sparks backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has vowed to push for a lower US tariff rate as criticism mounts over his administration\u2019s failure to secure a more favourable deal.<br \/>\nLai\u2019s pledge on Friday came after President Donald Trump imposed what Taipei described as a \u201ctemporary\u201d 20 per cent levy on Taiwanese exports to the United States.<br \/>\n\u201cThe 20 per cent tariff rate was never Taiwan\u2019s target to begin with. We hope in follow-up talks we are able to strive for a rate that\u2019s more favourable and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3320478\/taiwans-william-lai-vows-bargain-us-20-tariff-rate-draws-flak?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTaiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has vowed to push for a lower US tariff rate as criticism mounts over his administration\u2019s failure to secure&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}