“We will see each other on Saturday and Sunday. We have agreed to speak. On Saturday and Sunday we will decide what we will talk about. I have the feeling that It will try to de -display, not the great commercial agreementbut we have to descale before being able to advance ”, He indicated in an interview at the Fox News chain.
The Department of the Treasury said in a statement that Besent will meet in Switzerland with China’s main representative in economic matters taking advantage of a Chinese delegation will also be there.
In Switzerland, where he will travel on Thursday, the treasure representative will spend in fact with the Swiss president, Karin Keller-Sutter, to follow up on the meeting they already had in Washington Within the framework of spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and from the World Bank held at the end of April.
But that displacement will use commercial negotiation between the United States and China. “We both agree that this is not sustainableespecially on the Chinese side. 145 %, 125 % (tariffs) is the equivalent of an embargo. We do not want a decouple, we want a fair agreement“Besent said in Fox News.
This same Tuesday US President Donald Trump, there was indicated that there would be negotiations with China “at the right time.”
“They want to negotiate, they want to have an encounter and we will meet them at the right time. I have not met with them, ”he said at the White House at the beginning of his meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Thanks to @PotusThe World Has Been Coming To The US, and China you have the missing piece – We Will Meet On Saturday and Sunday to Discuss Our Shared Interests.
The Current Tariffs and Trade Barriers are Unsustableable, But We Don’t Want To Decouple.
What We Want Is Fair Trade. pic.twitter.com/myc4xvqme8
– Treasury Secretary Scott Besent (@SecScottbessent) May 6, 2025