More or less singled out for the steel and aluminum tariffs because of exemptions granted or in the process of being granted to others, the Chinese government imposed tariffs of 25% on 128 American products, including pork and steel pipes. The tariffs were at the more aggressive range of what the Chinese had originally threatened, and seemed meant to send a message that if the Trump Administration follows through on its threat to impose protective tariffs on some $60 billion of Chinese imports that are threatened as a result of a separate trade dispute over intellectual property, the Chinese will ... Log in to view full article.