White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Monday he did not see the United States and China responding to each other's tariff moves in a tit-for-tat escalation of trade tensions.

Asked on CNBC television what the U.S. response should be to about China's tariffs on $3 billion worth of U.S. fruits, nuts, wine, frozen pork, steel pipe and aluminium scrap, Navarro said: "I don ...