US President Donald Trump welcomed a “total reset” in American-Chinese trade relations after the first day of talks between senior American and Chinese officials in Geneva to descactize the tensions triggered by its aggressive tariff deployment on Sunday on Sunday on Sunday on Sunday. AFP reported.
Trump praised the “very good” discussions and judged them “a total reset negotiated in a friendly, but constructive” manner.
“We want to see, for the good of China and the United States, an opening of China for American affairs,” he said in a social article of truth on Saturday evening in Washington.
He added: “Great progress made !!!”
US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, and trade representative Jamieson Greer met Chinese Deputy Prime Minister, He Lifeng on Saturday for the first world’s negotiations between the two largest economies in the world since Trump, slapped new samples on China last month, causing robust reprisals of Pékin.
Discussions should continue in Geneva on Sunday, according to a familiar individual with talks, who was not authorized to speak publicly.
“Contact in Switzerland is an important step in promoting the number resolution,” said a commentary published by the Chinese press agency Xinhua.
“Dischaspation”
Negotiations at camera took place at the residence of the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, a discreet villa with blue sky shutters near a large park on the left bank of Lake Geneva.
The prices imposed by Trump on China since the start of the year currently total 145%, American cumulative tasks on certain Chinese goods reaching 245%of 245%.
In retaliation, China has slapped 125% of samples from American products, cement what seems to be a close commercial embargo between the two countries.
Trump pointed out on Friday that he could lower heaven prices on Chinese imports, going to social networks to suggest that an “80% price on China seems right!”.
“The president would like to work with China,” the US Secretary for Commerce Howard Lungick said on Friday. “He would like to defuse the situation.”
Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the United States would not unilaterally drop the prices and that China would need to make concessions.
In any case, a passage to this level would be a symbolic gesture, because the prices would remain prohibitive.
‘No winner’
Bessent said that meetings in Switzerland would focus on “de -escalation” and not on a “Big Trade Deal”.
Beijing insisted that the United States had to lift prices first and were walking to defend its interests.
“Trade wars and pricing battles give no winner,” said an article managed by Xinhua early on Sunday.
Chinese Deputy Prime Minister participated in discussions on news on Friday that Chinese exports increased last month despite the trade war.
Unexpected development has been awarded by experts to a listening to trade to Southeast Asia to alleviate American prices.
Bessent and he gathered two days after Trump unveiled a commercial agreement with Great Britain, the first agreement with any country since he unleashed his blitz of world prices.
The five -page and non -binding agreement with London confirmed to nervous investors that the United States was ready to negotiate specific relief in the recent tasks sector – in this case, on British cars, steel and aluminum.
In return, Great Britain has agreed to open its markets to American beef and other agricultural products.
But a 10% reference direct debit on most British products remained intact and Trump remains “committed” to keep it in place for other countries, Leavitt told journalists on Friday.
A few hours later, Trump seemed to contradict her, suggesting that there could be a certain flexibility for the basic line – but only if good deals could be concluded.
“There could be an exception at some point. We will see,” he said.
“If someone has done something exceptional for us, it’s always possible.”
