US, China hold new talks on tariff truce in Sweden
US Treasury Chief Scott Bessent was part of a negotiating team that arrived at Rosenbad, the Swedish prime minister's office in central Stockholm, in the early afternoon on Monday.
China's Vice Premier He Lifeng was also seen at the venue on video footage.
China is facing an August 12 deadline to reach a durable tariff agreement with US President Donald Trump's administration, after China and the US reached preliminary deals in May and June to end weeks of escalating tit-for-tat tariffs and a cut-off of rare earth minerals.
Trump touched on the talks during a wide-ranging press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland.
"I'd love to see China open up their country. So we're dealing with China right now as we speak," Trump said.
Without an agreement, global supply chains could face renewed turmoil from US duties snapping back to triple-digit levels that would amount to a bilateral trade embargo.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he did not expect "some kind of enormous breakthrough today" at the talks in Stockholm that he was attending.
"What I expect is continued monitoring and checking in on the implementation of our agreement thus far, making sure that key critical minerals are flowing between the parties and setting the groundwork for enhanced trade and balanced trade going forward," he told CNBC.
The Stockholm talks follow Trump's biggest trade deal yet with the European Union on Sunday for a 15 per cent tariff on most EU goods exports to the United States.
Trade analysts said another 90-day extension of a tariff and export control truce struck in mid-May between China and the United States was likely.
An extension would facilitate planning for a potential meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in late October or early November.
The Financial Times reported on Monday that the US had paused curbs on tech exports to China to avoid disrupting trade talks with Chinese officials and support Trump's efforts to secure a meeting with Xi this year.
Previous US-China trade talks in Geneva and London in May and June focused on bringing US and Chinese retaliatory tariffs down from triple-digit levels and restoring the flow of rare earth minerals halted by China and Nvidia's H20 AI chips, and other goods halted by the United States.
So far, the talks have not delved into broader economic issues.
They include US complaints that China's state-led, export-driven model is flooding world markets with cheap goods, and Chinese complaints that US national security export controls on tech goods seek to stunt Chinese growth.
Top United States and Chinese economic officials have resumed talks in Stockholm to resolve longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war between the world's top two economies, aiming to extend a truce by three months.
US Treasury Chief Scott Bessent was part of a negotiating team that arrived at Rosenbad, the Swedish prime minister's office in central Stockholm, in the early afternoon on Monday.
China's Vice Premier He Lifeng was also seen at the venue on video footage.
China is facing an August 12 deadline to reach a durable tariff agreement with US President Donald Trump's administration, after China and the US reached preliminary deals in May and June to end weeks of escalating tit-for-tat tariffs and a cut-off of rare earth minerals.
Trump touched on the talks during a wide-ranging press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland.
"I'd love to see China open up their country. So we're dealing with China right now as we speak," Trump said.
Without an agreement, global supply chains could face renewed turmoil from US duties snapping back to triple-digit levels that would amount to a bilateral trade embargo.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he did not expect "some kind of enormous breakthrough today" at the talks in Stockholm that he was attending.
"What I expect is continued monitoring and checking in on the implementation of our agreement thus far, making sure that key critical minerals are flowing between the parties and setting the groundwork for enhanced trade and balanced trade going forward," he told CNBC.
The Stockholm talks follow Trump's biggest trade deal yet with the European Union on Sunday for a 15 per cent tariff on most EU goods exports to the United States.
Trade analysts said another 90-day extension of a tariff and export control truce struck in mid-May between China and the United States was likely.
An extension would facilitate planning for a potential meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in late October or early November.
The Financial Times reported on Monday that the US had paused curbs on tech exports to China to avoid disrupting trade talks with Chinese officials and support Trump's efforts to secure a meeting with Xi this year.
Previous US-China trade talks in Geneva and London in May and June focused on bringing US and Chinese retaliatory tariffs down from triple-digit levels and restoring the flow of rare earth minerals halted by China and Nvidia's H20 AI chips, and other goods halted by the United States.
So far, the talks have not delved into broader economic issues.
They include US complaints that China's state-led, export-driven model is flooding world markets with cheap goods, and Chinese complaints that US national security export controls on tech goods seek to stunt Chinese growth.
Top United States and Chinese economic officials have resumed talks in Stockholm to resolve longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war between the world's top two economies, aiming to extend a truce by three months.
US Treasury Chief Scott Bessent was part of a negotiating team that arrived at Rosenbad, the Swedish prime minister's office in central Stockholm, in the early afternoon on Monday.
China's Vice Premier He Lifeng was also seen at the venue on video footage.
China is facing an August 12 deadline to reach a durable tariff agreement with US President Donald Trump's administration, after China and the US reached preliminary deals in May and June to end weeks of escalating tit-for-tat tariffs and a cut-off of rare earth minerals.
Trump touched on the talks during a wide-ranging press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland.
"I'd love to see China open up their country. So we're dealing with China right now as we speak," Trump said.
Without an agreement, global supply chains could face renewed turmoil from US duties snapping back to triple-digit levels that would amount to a bilateral trade embargo.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he did not expect "some kind of enormous breakthrough today" at the talks in Stockholm that he was attending.
"What I expect is continued monitoring and checking in on the implementation of our agreement thus far, making sure that key critical minerals are flowing between the parties and setting the groundwork for enhanced trade and balanced trade going forward," he told CNBC.
The Stockholm talks follow Trump's biggest trade deal yet with the European Union on Sunday for a 15 per cent tariff on most EU goods exports to the United States.
Trade analysts said another 90-day extension of a tariff and export control truce struck in mid-May between China and the United States was likely.
An extension would facilitate planning for a potential meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in late October or early November.
The Financial Times reported on Monday that the US had paused curbs on tech exports to China to avoid disrupting trade talks with Chinese officials and support Trump's efforts to secure a meeting with Xi this year.
Previous US-China trade talks in Geneva and London in May and June focused on bringing US and Chinese retaliatory tariffs down from triple-digit levels and restoring the flow of rare earth minerals halted by China and Nvidia's H20 AI chips, and other goods halted by the United States.
So far, the talks have not delved into broader economic issues.
They include US complaints that China's state-led, export-driven model is flooding world markets with cheap goods, and Chinese complaints that US national security export controls on tech goods seek to stunt Chinese growth.
Top United States and Chinese economic officials have resumed talks in Stockholm to resolve longstanding economic disputes at the centre of a trade war between the world's top two economies, aiming to extend a truce by three months.
US Treasury Chief Scott Bessent was part of a negotiating team that arrived at Rosenbad, the Swedish prime minister's office in central Stockholm, in the early afternoon on Monday.
China's Vice Premier He Lifeng was also seen at the venue on video footage.
China is facing an August 12 deadline to reach a durable tariff agreement with US President Donald Trump's administration, after China and the US reached preliminary deals in May and June to end weeks of escalating tit-for-tat tariffs and a cut-off of rare earth minerals.
Trump touched on the talks during a wide-ranging press conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland.
"I'd love to see China open up their country. So we're dealing with China right now as we speak," Trump said.
Without an agreement, global supply chains could face renewed turmoil from US duties snapping back to triple-digit levels that would amount to a bilateral trade embargo.
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he did not expect "some kind of enormous breakthrough today" at the talks in Stockholm that he was attending.
"What I expect is continued monitoring and checking in on the implementation of our agreement thus far, making sure that key critical minerals are flowing between the parties and setting the groundwork for enhanced trade and balanced trade going forward," he told CNBC.
The Stockholm talks follow Trump's biggest trade deal yet with the European Union on Sunday for a 15 per cent tariff on most EU goods exports to the United States.
Trade analysts said another 90-day extension of a tariff and export control truce struck in mid-May between China and the United States was likely.
An extension would facilitate planning for a potential meeting between Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in late October or early November.
The Financial Times reported on Monday that the US had paused curbs on tech exports to China to avoid disrupting trade talks with Chinese officials and support Trump's efforts to secure a meeting with Xi this year.
Previous US-China trade talks in Geneva and London in May and June focused on bringing US and Chinese retaliatory tariffs down from triple-digit levels and restoring the flow of rare earth minerals halted by China and Nvidia's H20 AI chips, and other goods halted by the United States.
So far, the talks have not delved into broader economic issues.
They include US complaints that China's state-led, export-driven model is flooding world markets with cheap goods, and Chinese complaints that US national security export controls on tech goods seek to stunt Chinese growth.
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