Trump says US has reached a trade deal with China

By&nbspAP

Published connected 11/06/2025 - 15:27 GMT+2•Updated 16:54

President Donald Trump announced connected Wednesday that nan United States will get magnets and uncommon world minerals from China nether a caller waste and acquisition woody and that tariffs connected Chinese equipment will full 55%.

In return, Trump said nan US will supply China “what was agreed to”, including allowing Chinese students to be American colleges and universities. The Republican president had precocious begun to clamp down connected nan beingness of Chinese nationals connected US assemblage campuses.

A White House official, who was not authorised to talk nan position publicly, said nan 55% was not an summation connected nan erstwhile 30% tariff connected China because Trump was including different pre-existing import taxes.

“OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME.,” Trump wrote connected Wednesday connected his societal media site.

He said afloat magnets and immoderate basal uncommon earths will beryllium supplied up beforehand by China.

“WE ARE GETTING A TOTAL OF 55% TARIFFS, CHINA IS GETTING 10%. RELATIONSHIP IS EXCELLENT!” Trump wrote.

Senior US and Chinese negotiators announced precocious connected Tuesday successful London that they had agreed connected a model to get their waste and acquisition negotiations backmost connected way aft a bid of disputes that threatened to derail them.

The announcement came astatine nan extremity of 2 days of talks successful nan British superior that wrapped up precocious connected Tuesday.

It came arsenic an world authorities group said that respective world brands are among dozens of companies astatine consequence of utilizing forced labour done their Chinese proviso chains because they usage captious minerals aliases bargain minerals-based products originated from nan far-western Xinjiang region of China.

The study by nan Netherlands-based Global Rights Compliance says companies including Avon, Walmart, Nescafe, Coca-Cola and overgarment supplier Sherwin-Williams whitethorn beryllium linked to titanium originated from Xinjiang, wherever authorities groups allege nan Chinese authorities runs coercive labour practices targeting predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and different Turkic minorities.

The study recovered 77 Chinese suppliers successful nan titanium, lithium, beryllium and magnesium industries operating successful Xinjiang. It said nan suppliers are astatine consequence of participating successful nan Chinese government’s “labour transportation programs”, successful which Uyghurs are forced to activity successful factories arsenic portion of a long-standing run of assimilation and wide detention.

Asked astir nan report, nan Chinese Foreign Ministry said that “no 1 has ever been forcibly transferred successful China’s Xinjiang nether activity programs”.

The named companies didn’t instantly remark connected nan report.