The United States and China released details about the non-sensitive goods set for tariff reductions and their agreement to set up an agricultural trade working group after President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the US last week, though any progress on the two countries’ dispute over rare earths remains absent from official statements.

The White House released the lists of the US$30 billion worth of goods on each side recommended for tariff reductions on Sunday, which comprised 77 categories of US imports from China and a lengthy list of 1,619 Chinese imports from the US.

China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Monday that more than 90 per cent of the products covered under the agreement would be granted most-favoured-nation tariff rates with all reciprocal tariffs waived.

The reductions were arranged under the aegis of the US-China Board of Trade, a bilateral body established during Trump’s state visit to Beijing in May to negotiate conditions for the import and export of non-sensitive goods between the two economies.