{"id":241219,"date":"2020-01-01T20:09:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T01:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=241219"},"modified":"2025-01-08T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T20:50:04","slug":"initial-china-trade-deal-to-be-signed-next-month-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/01\/initial-china-trade-deal-to-be-signed-next-month-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Initial China trade deal to be signed next month: Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_225379\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-225379\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Trump-portrait-adorns-Colorado-Capitol-after-Putin-prank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-225379\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Trump-portrait-adorns-Colorado-Capitol-after-Putin-prank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Trump-portrait-adorns-Colorado-Capitol-after-Putin-prank.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Trump-portrait-adorns-Colorado-Capitol-after-Putin-prank-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-225379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President of the United States Donald Trump speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\/39815489684\/in\/photolist-23EmMW5-Qzhh4M-23K2vCZ-SKi4d5-23Dt8eV-QX9ZwU-SqPZ3S-e3SgpF-TkpwSe-Ui3oQc-KEgiT4-PBZZc5-NXiyNg-NUxHLs-25ZBamE-CxFyZc-2faLUGN-2cKYe5h-2cL4xJm-Vv36f2-24D4xpa-T7hgpQ-JTy7a8-24CVpyg-YRkP69-CRRMpV-21DdVih-22h1fqq-YusbRr-R796xJ-2dRz7AF-Yhng2a-2dRz9N6-2cQjD56-2cvVTKy-278pXmJ-22KJGRj-CnCWPb-RJMPzn-2apTvv2-2f4XVXs-VqAYZS-cDqaeS-SN5w3K-2ctrgiT-2cMhAWS-2a2ec45-Qsy355-2cvVTeU-2cApaBe\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gageskidmore\">Gage Skidmore\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will sign an initial phase one trade deal with China next month in what could be a major milestone in a bilateral trade war.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony on Jan. 15 at the White House will include top Chinese officials, the President said on Twitter. He did not specify who would represent China, noting only it would be &#8220;high level representatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At a later date, I will be going to Beijing where talks will begin on Phase Two!&#8221; Trump added.<\/p>\n<p>Markets were largely flat in early morning trading with the Dow up five points, or about .<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ivermectin online <a href=\"https:\/\/medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ivermectin.html\">medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ivermectin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>02 percent, while the Nasdaq climbed 0.14 percent following Trump&#8217;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Washington and Beijing agreed earlier this month to the partial trade deal, which saw the US cancel some pending tariffs and reduce others as China vowed to increase purchases of American agricultural goods. The time since they reached the agreement has been spent on agreeing to the text&#8217;s language ahead of the formal signing.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing trade war between the world&#8217;s top two economies has sent shockwaves through international markets on fears that it could prompt a worldwide economic slowdown.<\/p>\n<p>An issue for Washington is a lopsided trade imbalance with China &#8212; the US had a USD378.6 billion trade deficit with China in 2018, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative &#8212; as well as concerns over intellectual property theft, including what the Trump administration says is Beijing&#8217;s policy of forcing American firms to transfer intellectual know-how to do business in China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has imposed wave after wave of US tariffs on Chinese goods and China has responded in kind.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lipitor online <a href=\"https:\/\/medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/lipitor.html\">medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/lipitor.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>To date, the US has imposed tariffs on USD360 billion on Chinese imports.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy stendra online <a href=\"https:\/\/medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/stendra.html\">medical.iftitah.com.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/stendra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013 US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will sign an initial phase one trade deal with China next month &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":225379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281078,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241219\/revisions\/281078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}