US should consider tariff impact on its economy

The United States needs to take into full consideration the interests of its consumers and companies when deciding whether to follow through on its threat to impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, experts said on Monday.

Their comments came as the world's two largest economies have been involved in a growing trade dispute over the past few months.

"US consumers will be severely hurt if US President Donald Trump's administration slaps tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports," Wu Baiyi, director of Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said at a seminar in Beijing.