If President Donald Trump wants to launch his one-man trade war with China with a surge in tariffs, he has plenty of products to choose from.
The White House is reportedly set to announce Thursday up to $60 billion in new duties on Chinese goods, possibly singling out technology, telecommunications and intellectual property products to start.
But the list of potential targets runs to the thousands, everything from furniture to sneakers.
There’s a reason trade deals take years to negotiate. In the last four decades, dozens of countries around the world have gradually eased trade tariffs on each other through years of haggling over how much to tax thousands of individual product types.