US Trade Officials Are In Beijing To Negotiate With Chinese Officials

As planned, representatives of the US and Chinese negotiating groups have begun talks to discuss trade issues together and on Monday, January 7, 2019, in China. 

Representatives of US negotiators led by Jeffrey Cerrish, vice president of commerce, and other officials involved in the talks, including Treasury Officers and Officials of the US Department of Agriculture and Energy, are in Beijing, China. On January 7, 2019, Jeffrey Gerrish was seen leaving a hotel in Beijing when journalists attempted to interview him, but the US vice president did not give an interview. Newspaper.

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Chinese President Hu Jintao during their two-day US-China Business and Investment Summit in Washington, Jan. 8, 2018. Last year at the G20 summit in Argentina. At that time, Donald Trump and Xi agreed to temporarily suspend tariffs on both sides temporarily and set a deadline of 90 days to allow representatives of the negotiating group to discuss the end of the trade crisis.

The suspension date of the temporary tax hike will be effective from December 1, 2018, and if the gap is still unresolved, the US will proceed with a new tax on Chinese goods. China may also be revenge by raising tariffs on imports from the United States as it did so. However, Donald Trump, last week expressed strong hope that the representatives of the two negotiating groups would be able to resolve the issue and find an agreement to end the conflict.