U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that 80 per cent tariffs on Chinese goods "seems right;" making his first suggestion of a specific alternative to the 145 per cent levies he has imposed on China ahead of weekend talks to contain a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies.

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