WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump said the United States will add an additional 100% tariff on all Chinese imports in retaliation to new export controls Beijing is planning for valuable rare earth minerals.

The move reignites a trade war between the world's two largest economies after the United States and China had for months maintained a truce that has kept tariffs on each other flat.

Trump said the new tariff would go into effect on Nov. 1, adding that his administration will also impose its own export controls on "any and all critical software," effective the same date.

"It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History," Trump said in an Oct. 10 post on Truth Social .

The 100% tariff would add to 30% duties the Uni

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