China “essentially stopped buying” U.S. exports in April 2025 after President Trump began his second term with steep new tariffs and Beijing retaliated, pushing U.S. goods shipments to China to levels not seen since the 2008–09 financial crisis, according to a March 3 analysis by Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) economist Chad P. Bown.
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