President Xi Jinping’s export engine has proved unstoppable during five months of sky-high US tariffs, sending China toward a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus.With access to the US curtailed, Chinese manufacturers have shown they aren't backing down: Indian purchases hit an all-time high in August,

Trump said tariffs have brought $31 billion to the U.S., though hard data for that number has not been publicly released. A chunk of that revenue will go to making sure “our farmers are in great shape,” Trump said. The exact amount of money for each farmer — and how it would be disseminated — was not made immediately clear.