"Other trading partners observing these threats will have the same mistrust of the negotiation process," experts argue.

China accounted for 5.89% of all U.S. trade in May, its lowest percentage in decades. Trump’s tariffs or trade trickery? It’s hard to dispute it’s a remarkable shift.

Even with major American brands, a large portion of smartphones, laptops and TVs are overwhelmingly assembled in China, according to Robert Khachatryan, CEO at Freight Right Global Logistics, who highlighted that over the past few years, tariffs on these products raised import costs and squeezed retailers.