{"id":8958,"date":"2025-05-08T04:21:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T04:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-he-wont-soften-china-tariffs-ahead-of-trade-talks\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T04:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T04:21:31","slug":"trump-says-he-wont-soften-china-tariffs-ahead-of-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-says-he-wont-soften-china-tariffs-ahead-of-trade-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he won\u2019t soften China tariffs ahead of trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said Wednesday he was not considering softening the 145 percent tariff on imports from China.  Reporters in the Oval Office asked if the president would consider reducing levies on the foreign nation, to which he succinctly responded, &ldquo;No.&rdquo; In early April, the Trump administration announced reciprocal tariff exemptions on electronics such as phones&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5288978-trump-says-he-wont-soften-china-tariffs-ahead-of-trade-talks\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said Wednesday he was not considering softening the 145 percent tariff on imports from China. Reporters in the Oval Office asked if the president would consider reducing levies on the foreign nation, to which he succinctly responded, &ldquo;No.&rdquo; In early April, the Trump administration announced reciprocal tariff exemptions on electronics such as phones&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}