InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate US begins collecting higher tariffs on Chinese goods arriving by sea By financialnews_rlv83x - June 1, 2019 0 234 The United States began collecting higher, 25per cent tariffs on many Chinese goods arriving in U.S. seaports on Saturday morning in an intensification of the trade war between the world’s two largest economies and drawing retaliation from Beijing.