Trump Says He May Upset China on Trade as U.S. Tariffs Loom

U.S. to release final list Friday of targeted Chinese goods
President says U.S. will ‘strongly’ crack down on trade

Bloomberg’s Joe Sobczyk reports on the trade disputes between the U.S. and China.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Mayeda

June 13, 2018 at 7:50 PM UTC

Updated on

June 14, 2018 at 8:18 AM UTC

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President Donald Trump said he’ll confront China “very strongly” over trade in the coming weeks, as his administration plans to announce on Friday a final list of tariff targets, which will be imposed shortly thereafter.

“China could be a little bit upset about trade because we are very strongly clamping down on trade,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier airing on Wednesday. The interview was conducted Tuesday aboard Air Force One after Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.