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China says it hopes to agree with US on tariff reductions 'at an early date'
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it → say → date
A Chinese government spokesperson says China and the U.S. hope to reach an agreement on lowering import taxes soon
BEIJING --
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China → say → taxes
China and the U.S. hope to reach an agreement on lowering import taxes soon, a Chinese government spokesperson said Thursday, fueling expectations that an announcement could come when the leaders of the two countries meet in two weeks.
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leaders → hope → weeks
Negotiators are striving to implement reciprocal tariff reductions on $30 billion worth of goods “at an early date,” Commerce Ministry spokesperson Huang Ling said at a weekly briefing.
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Ling → strive → briefing
The $30 billion will be from each side, China's official Xinhua News Agency said.
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Agency → say → side
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are expected to meet in Washington on Sept. 24 for what will be their third face-to-face talks in the past year.
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what → expect → year
Both governments characterize the meetings as a way to stabilize relations in an era of competing interests between the world's two largest economies.
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governments → characterize → economies
“Leaders’ diplomacy plays an irreplaceable strategic guiding role in China-U. S. relations,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Thursday.
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Jiakun → play → relations
Trump and Xi agreed at their previous meeting in May in Beijing to launch a U.S.-China Board of Trade that would manage trade between the two countries, along with a parallel Board of Investment.
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that → agree → Investment
The agreements came after a truce was reached in a blistering tariff war in which Trump hiked tariffs on Chinese imports to extremely high levels and China responded in kind.
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China → come → kind
The talks on reciprocal tariff reductions are a central part of the negotiations on creating the Board of Trade.
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talks → create → Trade
The goal is to identify and reduce tariffs on equivalent amounts of “nonsensitive” goods on each side, the U.S. said.
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U.S. → identify → side
“Trade will be front and center at the summit,” Barclays Bank said in a research note this week on the upcoming Trump-Xi meeting, noting that the truce the two countries reached on tariffs expires on Nov. 10.
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countries → say → Nov.
But it cautioned that the scope for a broad trade deal is limited, and that targeted tariff reductions are more likely.
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reductions → caution → deal
But as the U.S. and China have already reduced mutual trade reliance, the “overall trade significance will be more limited than before, given the smaller bilateral volume,” said Gary Ng, a senior economist at French bank Natixis.
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Ng → reduce → Natixis
Chinese exports to the U.S., for example, fell sharply last year, after the U.S. rolled out elevated tariffs.
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U.S. → fall → tariffs
An agreement on reciprocal tariff reductions could likely benefit the U.S. more, as $30 billion is roughly 28% of its exports to China, while it is only around 10% the other way around, Ng said.
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