News / 'To ship or not to ship', the question for US importers amid tariff uncertainty

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US importers are “being put in an impossible situation” – to ship or not to ship – as uncertainty about tomorrow’s mass-tariff implementation mounts. 

At the end of last week, China announced that from 10 April it would retaliate against the US’s 34% ‘reciprocal’ tariff and hit US goods with its own 34% tariff. 

While this isn’t equal to the full 54% tariff rate to which Chinese imports into the US are now subject, China also imposed export restrictions on critical minerals ...