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Bessent Says China Must Take Lead on Tariffs Talks, Hints at India Deal
Beijing is confident of hitting its 5% economic growth target this year despite the U.S. and China imposing hefty levies on ...
Amid Trump tariffs, China's trade and economy tsar steps into spotlight
By Laurie Chen, Michael Martina BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When the leaders of some of the world's largest companies ...
Funds hold bullish corn and soybean bets steady as trade talks await clarity
Speculators held on to bullish bets in Chicago corn and soybeans last week in hopes that U.S. talks with trading partners ...
Bessent Demurs on Trump’s Claim of Trade Talks With China’s Xi
The Treasury secretary said that the President Trump and Xi Jinping of China have a good relationship but that he was not ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defends the 'strategic uncertainty' of Trump's trade talks: 'Nobody's better at creating this leverage'
Scott Bessent told ABC News on Sunday that some of the countries looking to negotiate with Trump should curb their ...
Treasury Secretary Bessent says ‘it’s up to China’ — not the US — to de-escalate trade war
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday signaled that a de-escalation of the trade war over President Trump’s harsh tariff ...
China rejects Trump’s claim that Xi has called him by phone
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has not spoken to US President Donald Trump on the phone recently, Beijing said Monday, reiterating ...
Grains and soybeans fall on U.S.-China trade talks confusion
News last week that China has exempted some U.S. goods from its tariffs sparked hopes for a de-escalation. However, U.S. soybean and grain exports to China look like they will be stopped by Chinese ...
Trump claims trade negotiations are happening every day with China. No one in Beijing or Washington seems to know who is doing the talking
President says U.S. and China are talking, China denies it, and no one in the administration seems to know about it ...
China shrugs off threat of US tariffs to economy, says it has tools to protect jobs
China's leaders have shrugged off the potential impact from U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war, saying they have the ...
'Up to China to step back': US Treasury Secretary Bessent on tariff war, signals first trade deal could be with India
Bessent’s comments arrive at a tense moment, just weeks after President Donald Trump’s April 2 declaration of sweeping global ...
China tells Trump: If you want trade talks, cancel tariffs
China has called on the US to cancel its sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods entering the country as a sign that the President ...