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US-China partial trade deal: the main points
AFP•October 12, 2019 Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump on Friday announced a partial trade deal with China after talks in Washington with Vice Premier Liu He. Here are the main points of the agreement, which has yet to be signed. - A deal, in principle - Trump said he hoped to have a deal signed with President Xi Jinping "in four weeks, five weeks, something like that." The signing could take place in the middle of November in Chile on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. "We have a fundamental understanding on the key issues... but there is more work to do," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told reporters. "We will not sign an agreement unless we get, and can tell the president, that this is on paper." Mnuchin said Liu needed "to go back to do some work with his team, but we have made a lot of progress over the last two days," signaling that approval from the highest level in Beijing would be sought. Previous apparent breakthroughs have faced opposition in Beijing and seen a resumption of the trade war. - Agriculture - China has pledged to rapidly increase purchases of US farm goods to $40-50 billion a year -- a sharp rise that would be more than double the level in 2017. In 2017, before the trade war started, China imported $19.5 billion of US farm output, falling to just over $9 billion in 2018. - Financial services and currencies - "We've had good discussions with... the head of the People's Bank of China, their central bank," Mnuchin said Friday. "We have also had extensive discussions on financial services opening up their markets to our financial services firms. So we have pretty much almost a complete agreement on both of those issues "Currency has been a very big concern... and we have an agreement around transparency into the foreign exchange markets and free markets, so we are very pleased with that." read more |
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