The two largest economies in the world agreed this month pause the commercial escalation that tariffs had taken About US products to 125% and those of Chinese goods to 145%.
But US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent told Fox News chain that Commercial negotiations with China are “somewhat stagnant.”
Asked Friday by Besent’s statements, Lin Jian, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, He responded in a press conference that Beijing “has already clearly expressed on numerous occasions Your position on tariffs“
Attack on China
Hours later Trump turned to his social truth network, as he usually does, to lash out against Beijing: “China, perhaps not surprisingly for some, has totally violated its agreement with us“He said using capital letters and without giving details.
Consulted in the CNBC chain about the president’s statements, the United States trade representative Jamieson Greer accused China to continue “slowing down and drowning things like critical minerals.”
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, accuses China of having “violated” the agreement between the two countries to reduce their tariffs, in a new attack against Beijing at a time when commercial conversations seem to be in the dead #AFP pic.twitter.com/tsotouyxbes
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He added that the United States trade deficit with China “It’s still huge”and that Washington does not see important changes in the behavior of the Asian giant.
On Thursday, Besent suggested that Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping could get directly involved in negotiations.
“I think, given the magnitude of the negotiations and their complexity, It will be necessary for both leaders to intervene“Besent said Fox News.
Since Trump returned to the White House in January he has imposed New tariffs to most of the United States business partnerswith especially high rates for China.
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