No one is getting off the hook: Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump has said that no one is ldquogetting off the hookrdquo on trade after his administration appeared to dial down pressure on China by issuing a notice exempting certain hightech products from his ldquoreciprocalrdquo tariffsTrump on Sunday said that there were no exceptions to the tariffs as smartphones laptops and other products were still subject to an existing 20 per cent duty and the items were being moved to a different tariff ldquobucketrdquo as per Al Jazeera ldquoWe will not be held hostage by other Countries especially hostile trading Nations like Chinardquo Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platformChinarsquos President Xi Jinping and Vietnamrsquos General Secretary To Lam are welcomed by children at the Presidential Palace in HanoiSpeaking to reporters on board Air Force One later on Sunday Trump said he would announce new tariffs on semiconductors this week ldquoThe tariffs will be in place in the not distant futurerdquo Trump said adding that there would be flexibility for some companies in the sector US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said earlier that the reprieve for hightech products many of which are manufactured in China would be temporary and that semiconductor tariffs would be in place within weeksSingapore changes outlookSingapore has downgraded its gross domestic product GDP growth forecast for 2025 to 02 per cent the Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Monday citing the impact of US President Donald Trumprsquos tariffs The Monetary Authority of Singapore the de facto central bank has also loosened monetary policy for the second time in a row as economic fears rise due to the trade war brewing between the US and ChinaChinarsquos exports jump 12437Chinarsquos exports jumped 124 per cent in March from a year earlier as companies rushed to beat increases in US tariffs Imports fell 43 per cent the countryrsquos customs administrationreportedXi begins his tour of Southeast AsiaVisiting Vietnam to enhance political and trade ties amid a major tariff row with the US Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday said that China will ensure continuity and stability in its neighbourhood diplomacy and jointly advance the modernisation of Asia Xi arrived in Hanoi on his first visit abroad after US President Donald Trump slapped steep tariffs against China while pausing levies on a host of other countries including Vietnam Malaysia and Cambodiamdashthe three countries on the Chinese presidentrsquos current itineraryTrump hosts El Salvadorrsquos PrezPresident Donald Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele the president of El Salvador at the White House on Monday as the small Central American nation becomes a critical lynchpin of the US administrationrsquos mass deportation operation Since March El Salvador has accepted from the US more than 200 Venezuelan immigrantsmdashwhom the Trump administration has accused of gang activity and violent crimesmdashand placed them inside the countryrsquos notorious maximumsecurity gang prison just outside of the capital San Salvador It is also holding a Maryland man who the administration admits was wrongly deported but has not been returned to the US despite court orders to do soTrump says CBS should pay for going after himPresident Trump bitterly attacked lsquo60 Minutesrsquo shortly after CBS broadcast stories on Ukraine and Greenland on Sunday saying the network was out of control and should ldquopay a big pricerdquo for going after him ldquoAlmost every week 60 Minutes mentions the name TRUMP in a derogatory and defamatory way but this Weekendrsquos BROADCAST tops them allrdquo the president said on his Truth SocialThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoeveratOptionskeyd0ddb8ef8f1a62a8cdd22fac27fc5ea7formatiframeheight90width728params