U.S. President Donald Trump claims on Thursday that trade discussions between the United States and Beijing are underway, opposing Chinese actions that no talks have taken place to ease the continuing trade conflict, according to Reuters.
“They had a meeting this morning,” President Trump said reporters, refusing to say to whom he was mentioning. “It doesn’t matter who ‘they’ is. We may reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we’ve been meeting with China,” as per Reuters.
According to Reuters, on Thursday, Beijing stated it had not conducted trade discussions with United States even though repeated replies from the United States government proposing there had been involvement.
“China and the United States have not conducted consultations or negotiations on tariffs, let alone reached an agreement,” Guo Jiakun, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said to reporters at a news addressing, urging reports of such detail “false news,” reported by Reuters.
The conflicting comments from U.S. and China emphasized the exhausted communication and uncertainty describing the recent trade conflict, including volatility to world markets and sustaining economic pain on both parties.
American businesses facing challenges on import costs meanwhile Chinese exporters are compressed by falling United States demand.
As per Reuters report, Donald Trump and Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary this week shown there could be an alleviating tensions with Beijing.
On Wednesday, Scott Bessent stated extremly high tariffs between the United States and Beijing will have to come down prior trade talks carry on and that de-escalation was significant for the world’s two biggest economies to adjust their trading partnership.
The White House prior this month applied 145% tariffs on Chinese products, prompting China to counter with duties of its own and expanded restrictions on vital minerals exports to the U.S.. (Forelines)