Correspondent and early start coanch coanch coanchor Christine Romans. White house officials are saying that they do not expect a deal today and what happens next . You know, its looking grim. It looks like it was not a bluff, jim and poppy. President trump jacked up tariffs on thousands of goods, dishwashers, frozen fish, baseball caps. Right now about half of the products china sells to the u. S. , about half of them now carry an import tax. So how did we get here . Three rounds of tariffs last year, first the u. S. Put tariffs on all foreign steel and aluminum, including from china. Then in july the u. S. Singled out beijing, slapping tariffs on 50 billion worth of high tech chinese exports. China hit back right away with tariffs on 50 billion in u. S. Goods, mainly ag products and that has been devastating for american soybean growers in particular. The biggest round was in september, 200 billion in chinese goods, luggage, handbags and hats, beijing hit back with 60 billion in u. S