Trump trade officials play down tariff concerns ahead of midterms更新于2018年9月19日 10:22 By Sam Fleming,Tom Mitchell in Washington, in Beijing
Donald Trump’s top trade officials are attempting to reassure US voters they would feel no ill effects from the decision to slap a fresh round of tariffs on China, even as companies and some Republicans warned of escalating economic damage stemming from the president’s trade war.
Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, told CNBC on Tuesday the 10 per cent tariff being imposed on $200bn of Chinese imports would be spread over thousands of products, meaning that “nobody is actually going to notice it at the end of the day”.