Which countries impose the highest tariffs on the US?

President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs connected U.S. trading partners passim the satellite Wednesday, saying the U.S. would adhd a 10% minimum baseline taxation connected each products coming in.

The Trump medication has identified what it has called the "Dirty 15" arsenic the 15 nations with the largest commercialized shortage with the U.S., meaning the commercialized partnerships by which Washington imports much from countries than those nations import from the U.S.

But the White House has besides flagged what it describes arsenic different "unfair" trading practices, chiefly implemented done tariffs connected U.S. goods. 

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President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit to denote caller tariffs successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House Wednesday, April 2, 2025, successful Washington, arsenic Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick listens.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

CHINA

Washington and Beijing person been successful a commercialized warfare since the archetypal Trump medication erstwhile the first-term president imposed 25% tariffs connected $50 cardinal successful Chinese goods starting successful April 2018.

Beijing responded the adjacent time by slapping reciprocal tariffs connected 106 U.S. products worthy $50 billion, mostly targeting U.S. cultivation products worthy immoderate $16.5 billion.

The tariff warfare would proceed with repeated back-and-forth escalating tariffs earlier immoderate tariff alleviation was agreed upon opening successful January 2020.

By January 2021, the U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) found that the U.S. had mislaid astir a 4th of a cardinal jobs.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick holds a illustration arsenic President Donald Trump speaks during an lawsuit to denote caller tariffs successful the Rose Garden astatine the White House Wednesday, April 2, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Biden medication and China mostly maintained the presumption quo established during Trump’s archetypal commercialized war. 

But Trump threatened to deed Beijing with 60% tariffs connected the run way and, by February 2025, conscionable weeks aft his inauguration, helium slapped China with a broad 20% tariff connected each Chinese imports.

Beijing again responded with up to 15% tariffs connected much than $33 cardinal successful U.S. cultivation products, including U.S.-grown chicken, wheat, maize and cotton.

China’s commercialized shortage with the U.S. is $295.4 billion. 

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a statement connected the conclusions of the Dec. 14-15, 2023, European Council and preparations for the bonzer European Council scheduled for Feb. 1, 2024, astatine the European Parliament successful Strasbourg, France, Jan. 17, 2024. (Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)

EUROPEAN UNION

The European Union, which is nary alien to Trump’s tariff war, is bracing for a overmuch bigger conflict this clip astir aft enduring metallic commercialized spats during his archetypal term. 

Trump has already announced a 25% tariff connected alloy and aluminum imports, which straight hits the European Union, the U.S.’s largest trading partner, on with a 25% tariff connected imported cars, which volition impact nations similar Germany. 

The EU said it could enforce retaliatory tariffs connected the U.S. of up to $28 billion. 

The U.S. had a commercialized shortage of $235.6 cardinal with the European Union successful 2024, which Trump has called "an atrocity."

But it is not lone the quality successful commercialized agreements that has irked the president.

Last month, the White House said circumstantial levies charged by assorted trading partners are making it "virtually impossible" for U.S. products to beryllium exported, including a 50% taxation connected American dairy products sold by EU nations. 

European Union flags flutter extracurricular the EU Commission office successful Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 28, 2022.  (Reuters/Yves Herman//File Photo)

But adept Andrew Hale, a elder argumentation expert successful commercialized argumentation with the Heritage Foundation, explained that the dairy manufacture successful peculiar has monolithic barriers stopping Europe from being capable to little prices to lucifer American products.

"They person a very, precise protected cultivation market," Hale said, highlighting Europe’s strict husbandry practices. "Europeans would not beryllium capable to compete."

Hale explained that norms similar overcrowding and mediocre conditions often recovered successful the U.S.’s poultry, dairy and pork industries successful wide farming are barred successful Europe. 

Animal spacing regulations and bans related to hormone injections person required a wholly antithetic benignant of farming that favors prime attraction of the animals versus wide production, which makes European meats and dairy products much costly than American products and makes it improbable that the EU drops this tax.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with the media connected Parliament Hill aft a gathering of the Cabinet Committee connected Canada-U.S. Relations and National Security successful Ottawa Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

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CANADA

The White House has besides taken purpose astatine Canada, which is expected to spot much tariffs fired astatine it Wednesday and said it has a 300% tariff connected American food and cheese.

Hale explained that portion this is technically true, it is simply a tariff rate-quota that was negotiated during the archetypal Trump medication nether the revised NAFTA agreement, which became the United States Mexico Canada (USMCA), and 1 which has ne'er been implemented.

The monolithic tariff would lone beryllium utilized if U.S. exports transcend negotiated tariff complaint quotas. Otherwise, regular income to Canada look nary tariffs nether the USMCA.

Canada and the U.S. successful caller weeks person entered into a tariff warfare aft Trump announced a broad 25% tariff connected 25% connected Canadian goods and 10% connected its energy.

Ottawa, successful return, imposed 25% reciprocal tariffs on $30 cardinal successful U.S. goods, mostly targeting the agriculture sector. 

It has threatened to deed the U.S. with tariffs connected $95 cardinal successful U.S. imports if Trump imposes much taxes connected the country's bluish neighbor.

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HOW IT ENDS

"Everyone needs to bash what Israel has conscionable done, bring down zero tariffs against the U.S. And past we tin person implicit escaped trade," Hale said. "That's fair, and we tin each person marketplace access.

"When you person anserine tariffs, similar tariffing worldly you don't turn and make, that's conscionable fundamentally being unfair."