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White House eased China tariffs after warnings of harm to ‘Trump’s people’

The president has backtracked repeatedly on his tariff policies, creating a whiplash with downsides and few clear benefits so far.

Throughout April, President Donald Trump’s sky-high tariffs on imports from China had rippled through the U.S. and global economies. But the president was reluctant to move too quickly to lower the penalties on Beijing, believing that the United States needed to stomach some short-term economic pain to achieve a major rebalancing in trade and that China had more to lose in the standoff.