Joe Biden has imposed steep tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese goods, despite Kamala Harris calling similar levies proposed by Donald Trump a “sales tax”. The US president on Friday confirmed a 100 per cent duty on electric vehicles, 50 per cent on solar cells and 25 per cent on steel and aluminium imports.

The Biden administration said Friday that it has finalized tariff hikes on certain Chinese-made products that the president first announced in May.

The USTR on Friday announced that the new set of tariffs levied against China-made industrial products is set to go into effect on Sept. 27.