With inflation in the US having hit a 40-year high this March and gas prices at a record high, US President Joe Biden asked his team last month to examine options of potentially lifting some tariffs on Chinese goods in a bid to relieve US consumers. The US and China are the world’s two largest economies by a considerable margin, with China rapidly closing the gap to the much less populous US in recent years and decades. Is the united states starting to feel its won sanctions ?

