US President Donald Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with China over bilateral trade issues and its inaction on North Korea and is now considering possible trade actions against Beijing, according to a new report.
According to three senior White House officials, Trump was looking at options including tariffs on steel imports from China.
“What’s guiding this is he ran to protect American industry and American workers,” one of the US officials said, referring to Trump’s 2016 election promise to take a hard line on trade with China.
But it remains unclear whether Trump would take any steps against China.
The officials further said there was no consensus on dealing with China and they did not say what other options were being studied.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross already has said he is considering tariffs on steel imports from China as part of a national security study of the US steel industry.
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