weekend in france. responding to a retaliatory move by china earlier today, the president tonight declared he s hiking tariffs on beijing, raising existing rates as well as those set to kick in next month. it comes after china announced this morning they re imposing a new round of tariffs on $75 billion worth of american goods. the news was met with outrage at the white house where the president took to twitter and attempted to order all american companies to cut their ties with china. all american companies. no more trade with china. of course, that s ridiculous. trump tweeted we don t need china and frankly we would be better off without them. our great american companies are hereby orders to immediately start looking for an alternative to china including bringing your companies home and making your products in the usa. that s the president this morning trumpeting powers he doesn t posz. however, the washington post points out the white house does not have the authority to force co