US tariffs of 104 per cent will force Chinese exporters to diversify. A flood of cheap goods could be good for consumers, but a weakened China is not good for Australia.
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Tokyo | David Pan has watched the US-China trade war unfold with a mixture of resignation and despair.
It’s not because his Zhuhai, Pearl River Delta factory turning out curtains and windows ships to the United States. He quickly stopped that during Donald Trump’s first presidency, when a 25 per cent tariff hit Chinese imports and Pan’s customers “dried up very fast”.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/world/asia/us-hard-to-sell-to-now-china-s-exporters-train-sights-on-australia-20250408-p5lq49
