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US President Trump may visit China before the APEC summit or meet Xi Jinping in South Korea. The countries are negotiating to end ongoing tariff war.
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (AP/File)
US President Donald Trump may visit China before attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit between October 30 and November 1, or he could meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC event in South Korea, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday, citing multiple sources.
The two countries have been working to negotiate an end to an escalating tit-for-tat tariff war that has disrupted global trade and supply chains.
Trump has aimed to impose tariffs on US importers for almost all foreign goods, claiming it will stimulate domestic manufacturing. Critics argue this will make many consumer goods more expensive for Americans.
He has called for a universal base tariff rate of 10 per cent on goods imported from all countries, with higher rates for imports from the most “problematic" ones, including China, where imports now have the highest tariff rate of 55%.
The Reuters reported that Trump has set a deadline of August 12 for the US and China to reach a durable tariffs agreement.
The two countries’ most recent high-level meeting was on July 11, when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had what both described as a productive and positive meeting in Malaysia about how trade negotiations should proceed.
Rubio noted then that Trump had been invited to China to meet with Xi, and said that both leaders “want it to happen."
On Friday, China Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said China wants to bring its trade ties with the U.S. back to a stable footing and that recent talks in Europe showed there was no need for a tariff war.
Earlier this month, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told journalists gathered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that there is a “high probability" that US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet this year. He didn’t give a date but added there was a “strong desire on both sides to do it."
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