Top US Trade Officials Head to China Next Week for New Trade Talks

Top US Trade Officials Head to China Next Week for New Trade Talks
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Feb. 27, 2019. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
|Updated:

WASHINGTON—U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin plan to travel to China next week for another round of trade talks with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, a Trump administration official said on March 19.

The resumption of face-to-face talks, the first since President Donald Trump delayed a March 1 deadline to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, marks an acceleration of negotiations aimed to end an eight-month trade war between the world’s two largest economies.