This is CNBC’s live coverage of how U.S. trade partners, the White House and employers are responding to President Donald Trump’s historic tariffs.
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at the American Bankers Association’s Washington Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC on April 9, 2025.
Bessent is striking a confident pose in the face of China’s new retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.
“I can tell you that this escalation is a loser for them,” Bessent said in a Fox Business interview.
“They are the surplus country,” he said. “Their exports to the U.S. are five times our exports to China.”
“So they can raise their tariffs, but so what?”
— Kevin Breuninger
The group estimates “tens of thousands” of Chinese are …