The United States and China have signed a “trade deal” after a more than month-long trade war between the world’s two largest economies, the White House has said.<\/p>\n
The pair had been negotiating in Geneva, Switzerland, for two days – and on Sunday afternoon, a statement from Donald Trump’s office said that a “deal” had been struck.<\/p>\n
American trade representative Jamieson Greer called the talks “very constructive” and said the deal would help the US work towards resolving a “national emergency”.<\/p>\n
“Just remember why we’re here in the first place,” Greer said. “The United States has a massive $1.2trillion trade deficit, so the President declared a national emergency and imposed tariffs, and we’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency”.<\/p>\n
But his statement – alongside one from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – has raised eyebrows after not including any details of the deal.<\/p>\n
A “complete briefing” will follow tomorrow morning, Bessent said.<\/p>\n
And the Treasury chief himself – despite the White House statement being titled “US Announces China Trade Deal in Geneva” – did not refer to a “deal”.<\/p>\n
He had said: “I’m happy to report that we made substantial progress between the United States and China in the very important trade talks.”<\/p>\n
“We will be giving details tomorrow, but I can tell you that the talks were productive,” he added.<\/p>\n
Bessent continued: “I spoke to President Trump, as did Ambassador Jamieson, last night, and he is fully informed of what is going on.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States and China have signed a “trade deal” after a more than month-long trade war between…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[1395,32,1232,12,285,49,978,43989,727,2862,659,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-93293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-money","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-money","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-us-politics","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}