The dollar rally likely stems from Trump’s plans to impose tariffs across the board, with a 60% duty on imports from China. “If Trump wins and puts a 60% tariff on China, we’ll see a rise in the Dollar unlike anything in the past. China has only one option in response to tariffs: allow the RMB to fall hard and fast. That will pull down all of EM, which is collateral damage in the U.S.-China trade war,” Robin Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said on X.
