Tag: US/China trade war

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 06:00 UTC

  US/China conclude first of two days of talks; Trump's tariff hike anticipated

  

  Top US and Chinese trade negotiators concluded the first of two days of talks on Thursday to rescue a trade deal that is close to collapsing as Washington prepares to go ahead with plans to hike tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods imported from China.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Trump open to extending the deadline for a trade deal with China

  

  United States president Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would consider extending the deadline for a trade deal with China beyond March first.

• Saturday, February 9th 2019 - 07:34 UTC

  Trade war: US and China set to discuss intellectual property on Monday

  

  United States negotiators are preparing to press China next week on longstanding demands that it reform how it treats American companies’ intellectual property in order to seal a trade deal that could prevent tariffs from rising on Chinese imports.

• Friday, February 1st 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Summit with Xi, “soon”, should seal “the biggest deal ever made” forecasts Trump

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping soon to try to seal a comprehensive trade deal as Trump and his top trade negotiator both cited substantial progress in two days of high-level talks.

• Sunday, December 2nd 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Trump and Xi in Buenos Aires agree a 90 day truce to continue US/China trade talks

  

  US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed to halt new trade tariffs for 90 days to allow for talks, the US says. The two men met in Buenos Aires after the G20 summit for their first talks since a trade war erupted this year.

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 09:08 UTC

  Expectations Buenos Aires G 20 leaders' summit could soften US/China trade war, after APEC's failure

  

  An acrimonious meeting of world leaders in Papua New Guinea failed to agree Sunday on a final communiqué, highlighting widening divisions between global powers China and the U.S. It now seems that the next occasion will be in Buenos Aires in the framework of the G20 leaders summit when presidents Trump and Xi are expected to hold a bilateral meeting.

• Wednesday, July 18th 2018 - 07:33 UTC

  Jerome Powell admits trade policy could complicate Fed's forecasts

  

  A trade war with China, the European Union and other trading partners is casting some doubts about the U.S. economic future, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Tuesday. And the longer it goes, the more potential harm it could cause, Powell told the Senate Banking Committee at a hearing about the Fed's monetary policy and the economy.

• Friday, June 22nd 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  US/China trade dispute: Beijing says US suffers of a “symptom of paranoid delusions”

  

  U.S. protectionism is self-defeating and a “symptom of paranoid delusions” that must not distract China from its path to modernization, Chinese state media said on Friday. China has stepped up its war of words with the United States since President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to hit US$ 200 billion of Chinese imports with 10% tariffs if China retaliates against his previous targeting of US$ 50 billion in imports.

• Monday, June 18th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  China forced to fight back with reciprocal tariffs

  

  The following editorial on the current US/China trade war was published by the official news agency Xinhua,

• Saturday, June 16th 2018 - 10:43 UTC

  Beijing tells Trump it is ready to retaliate with tariffs on US$ 50bn US exports, but also wants to dialogue

  

  China responded forcefully in state media on Saturday after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said it would impose tariffs on US$50 billion of Chinese imports, but some commentary left room for further negotiations.