(Forelines) – United Staes President Donald Trump on Thursday stated he hopes for to make a trade deal with , Beijing, though he proposed no specifics or signals of how negotiations would get in progress with the two superpowers at an apparent standoff, reported by Reuters.
“Oh we’re going to make a deal,” Donald Trump stated from the White House in reply to a reporter’s question regarding picking up the phone to call China’s President Xi Jinping. “I think we are going to make a very good deal with China.”
According to Reuters, Prior on Thursday, China’s commerce ministry called the U.S. to stop putting “extreme pressure” on the world’s second-largest economy and pressed for respect in any trade negotiations, but the two sides continued at an standoff over who should begin those discussions.
While Donald Trump has for the time being relaxed his currently declared hefty tariffs on goods from dozens of trading partners, Trump left in place his new import levies on Chinese goods that computed jointly total 145%.