{"id":144556,"date":"2026-01-20T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144556"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:30:08","slug":"as-trump-threatens-more-tariff-rises-china-uses-low-duties-to-secure-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144556","title":{"rendered":"As Trump threatens more tariff rises, China uses low duties to secure resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAs US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff increases have roiled global markets and strained America\u2019s alliances in recent months, China has been pursuing the opposite strategy: keeping import duties low and pledging further cuts as a way to secure strategic resources and build ties across the developing world.<br \/>\nChina\u2019s average effective tariff rate \u2013 calculated by dividing total duties raised by the value of imports \u2013 has fallen steadily over the past decade and came to just 1.3 per cent in 2025,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3340558\/trump-threatens-more-tariff-rises-china-uses-low-duties-secure-resources?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 PostAs US President Donald Trump\u2019s tariff increases have roiled global markets and strained America\u2019s alliances in recent months, China has been pursuing the opposite&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\/144556"}],"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=144556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}