Trump meets US trade delegation after Beijing talks

Washington: US President Donald Trump said that he met the team of US negotiators who had travelled last week to Beijing for a new round of trade negotiations with China. “Trade negotiators have just returned from China where the meetings on trade were very productive,” Trump, who is currently at his private residence in Palm Beach, Florida, said in a series of tweets on Saturday night. “Now at meetings with me at Mar-a-Lago giving the details. In the meantime, billions of dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of trade tariffs!” The US delegation, headed by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Foreign Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, travelled to Beijing for a round of talks after which they were received by Chinese President Xi Jinping, Efe news reported. Both teams will meet again next week in Washington. March 1 is the deadline for an agreement with China, and Trump has warned that if it does not happen, the US will raise the tariffs imposed on Chinese products valued at $200 billion from 10 per cent to 25 per cent. (IANS)

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