China has more to lose economically from a trade war than the US. But the damage as the Trump administration expands tariffs will be mitigated by China’s high market share in many of the targeted products, which will push a portion of the cost onto US firms and consumers. More than half of US imports of the goods on this week’s expanded $200bn tariff list came from China last year.
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