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Beijing, April 11, 2025 — China has sharply escalated its tariff retaliation against the United States, slapping a 125% additional levy on US imports starting Saturday. The move comes in direct response to America’s 145% total tariffs on Chinese goods, marking another heated chapter in the ongoing trade war.China’s Customs Tariff Commission, announcing the hike on Friday, said the US tariffs had crossed the line of economic rationale. “It would no longer make economic sense and will go down as a joke in world economic history,” the commission said, warning that if the US further raises tariffs, China will simply…