US Bessent: Confident that magnets will flow in China-US deal

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  • This is a de-escalation.
  • Agreement with China will allow magnets to flow to everyone who received them before on a regular basis.
  • 20% fentanyl tariffs on China remain in place.
  • Now our tariffs are 30% on China, theirs are 10%.
  • On August 12 tariffs date says going to be up to Chinese, think we can keep this de-escalation under control.
  • We don’t want to decouple from China.

The market has been looking past the tariffs stuff for quite some time already. The tariffs on China will likely settle around these levels or a bit lower and the rest will keep 10%.

This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at www.forexlive.com.