rather cool who at this point and so china can simply impose counter-terrorist as they done in the pasta because they just don't import enough u.s. goods to match what the u.s. is doing so how could china respond. now certainly if we look at the figures the u.s. exports goods to china in the amount of a good one hundred thirty billion dollars and they import goods from china in the amount of a good five hundred billion dollars so on this side the u.s. seems to be here in the driver's seat but china certainly has possibilities to counter one for example would be if china just devaluates its currency if the yuan is going to fall further and actually it already dropped to the lowest in about two years so that to a certain degree would level out higher tariff they can also stop buying u.s. treasuries they could make life miserable for us corporations have been active in