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Beijing is trying to win over other countries with vows of economic cooperation. But it won’t back down from its territorial claims, experts predict.
The agreement is pressuring manufacturing hubs such as Vietnam and Mexico to make their own, better deals with the United States.
The Trump administration has made moves to ease tariff tensions with China but new reports indicate that prices, including for cars, are on the rise.
As part of the US China trade agreement, the United States has reduced tariffs on Chinese imports to 30%, while China has brought down its tariffs on American goods to 10%, a massive reduction of over 100 percentage points in some cases.
China and the United States announced a truce in their trade war on Monday after talks in Geneva that will roll back the bulk of tariffs and other countermeasures by Wednesday.
The agreement was cheered in Beijing as vindication for Xi Jinping and his defiant response to President Trump’s trade war.
China has removed its ban on airlines accepting Boeing planes after Beijing and Washington agreed to temporarily reduce the steep tariffs on one another.
The world’s two biggest economies agreed to a temporary rollback of most of their recent levies after negotiating in Switzerland over the weekend.
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By Laurie Chen, Emily Green and Francesco Guarascio BEIJING/MEXICO CITY/HANOI (Reuters) -A new U.S.-China agreement to pause sky-high tariffs on each other is pressuring manufacturing hubs such as Vietnam and Mexico to make their own,
Beginning Wednesday, shipments arriving in the United States from China and Hong Kong worth less than $800 could face 54 percent tariffs.