China Offers to Ramp Up US Imports: Bloomberg

China Offers to Ramp Up US Imports: Bloomberg
A woman walks past a bench painted in the colors of the U.S. flag outside a clothing store in Beijing on Jan. 7, 2019. Thomas Peter/Reuters
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China has offered to go on a six-year buying spree to ramp up imports from the United States in order to reconfigure the relation between the two countries, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 18, citing people familiar with the matter.

By raising annual goods imports from the United States by a combined value of more than $1 trillion, China would seek to reduce its trade surplus, which last year stood at $323 billion, to zero by 2024, one of the people told Bloomberg.