China warned the Trump administration on Tuesday against reigniting trade tension by restoring tariffs on its goods next month, and threatened to retaliate against nations that strike deals with the United States to cut China out of supply chains.

China on Tuesday warned the Donald Trump administration against reigniting trade tensions by reinstating tariffs on its goods from August, and threatened to retaliate against nations that strike deals with the United States to exclude China from their supply chains.

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.