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05-20-2018, 12:54 PM #1
US and China halt imposing import tariffs
US and China halt imposing import tariffs
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China and the US say they will halt imposing punitive import tariffs, putting a possible trade war "on hold".
The deal came after talks in the US aimed at persuading China to buy $200bn (£148bn) of US goods and services and thereby reduce the trade imbalance.
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin did not give figures, but said the US would impose tariffs worth $150bn if China did not implement the agreement.
Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He described the deal as a "win-win choice".
He said dialogue was the way to resolve such issues and "treat them calmly" in the future.
How did the prospect of a trade war come so close?
The US has a $335bn annual trade deficit with Beijing.
Before being elected, President Donald Trump had spoken of China "raping" the US, and promised to label it a currency manipulator on his first day in office.
This did not happen, but he ordered a review of the trade imbalance last August. It found a range of "unfair" practices in China, including restrictions on foreign ownership that pressured foreign companies into transferring technology, unfair terms on US companies, Chinese investments in US strategic industries and Chinese cyber-attacks.
In March this year, Mr Trump announced plans to impose tariffs on Chinese imports - mainly steel and aluminium.
Beijing threatened equal retaliation, including tariffs on a number of US imports - among them aircraft, soybeans, cars, pork, wine, fruit and nuts.
Beijing Deals
What China sells to the US
$462.6bn
The value of of goods bought by the US from China in 2016.
18.2% of all China's exports go to the United States
$129bn worth of China-made electrical machinery bought by US
59.2% growth in Chinese services imported by US between 2006 & 2016
$347bn US goods trade deficit with China
CIA Factbook; USTR. All data for 2016.
Is that threat now over?
Two days of talks ended in Washington DC on Friday with a framework agreement.
Mr Mnuchin told Fox News on Sunday that China would buy more US goods "to substantially reduce the trade deficit".
Concrete numbers had been agreed, he said, although he refused to disclose if this meant China was buying $200bn in return for the US threat to be lifted. US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross would travel to China soon, he said, to work on details, which would involve industries - not just the two governments.
"We are putting the trade war on hold. Right now we have agreed to put the tariffs on hold while we try to execute the framework" of the agreement, Mr Mnuchin said.
But he warned that failure to implement it would result in the imposition of the threatened US tariffs.
Is China happy, too?
The Chinese vice-premier Mr Liu said his visit to the US had been "positive, pragmatic, constructive and productive".
He described a "healthy development of China-US economic and trade relations" which would result in enhanced co-operation in areas such as energy, agriculture products, healthcare, high-tech products and finance.
"Such co-operation is a win-win choice as it can promote the high-quality development of the Chinese economy, meet the people's needs, and contribute to the US effort to reduce its trade deficit," he added.
Mr Mnuchin said the new framework agreement included structural changes to Chinese economy to enable fair competition for US companies, but this would take time, China's vice-premier said.
And, perhaps because of that, he said the two countries "should properly handle their differences through dialogue and treat them calmly in the future".
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