US and Chinese trade teams to meet again in 2 to 3 months, Trump's Treasury chief says
The comments come a day after the trading partners extended a tariff truce for another 90 days, staving off triple-digit duties on each other's goods.
In an interview on Fox Business Network's Kudlow, Bessent also said Chinese President Xi Jinping had invited Trump to a meeting, but one had not been scheduled.
'There's no date,' Bessent said. 'The president hasn't accepted yet.'
Trump told CNBC earlier this month that the US and China were getting very close to a trade agreement and he would meet Xi before the end of the year if a deal was struck.
Bessent also said on Fox Business that the US will need to see 'months, if not quarters, if not a year' of progress on fentanyl flows before it considers reducing tariffs on China.
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