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Asahi Shimbun
12-05-2025
- Business
- Asahi Shimbun
U.S. Trade Representative Greer says U.S. and China to roll back most tariffs
Vice minister of Finance Liao Min, left, gestures toward a journalist at a news conference at the Chinese mission to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, May 11, 2025, alongside Vice Premier He Lifeng and Li Chenggang, vice minister of commerce. (AP Photo) GENEVA--U.S. and Chinese officials said Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90-day pause to keep talking to resolve their trade disputes. Stock markets rose sharply as the globe's two major economic powers took a step back from a clash that has unsettled the global economy. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. agreed to drop its 145% tariff rate on Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30%, while China agreed to lower its rate on U.S. goods by the same amount to 10%. Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the tariff reductions at a news conference in Geneva. The two officials struck a positive tone as they said the two sides had set up consultations to continue discussing their trade issues. Bessent said at the news briefing after two days of talks that the high tariff levels would have amounted to a complete blockage of each side's goods, an outcome neither side wants. 'The consensus from both delegations this weekend is neither side wants a decoupling,' Bessent said. 'And what had occurred with these very high tariff ... was an embargo, the equivalent of an embargo. And neither side wants that. We do want trade. We want more balanced trade. And I think that both sides are committed to achieving that." Trump last month raised U.S. tariffs on China to a combined 145% and China retaliated by hitting American imports with a 125% levy. Tariffs that high essentially amount to the two countries boycotting each other's products, disrupting trade that last year topped $660 billion. The announcement by the U.S. and China sent shares surging, with U.S. futures jumping more than 2%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index surged nearly 3% and benchmarks in Germany and France were both up 0.7%
Bloomberg
03-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
China to Diversify Offshore Bond Issuance After Green Debut
China is looking to diversify its offshore debt program and make sales more regularly to tap international investors, following hefty demand for its debut green bonds. 'We'll think about expanding the issuance location and also the currency combination of our sovereign bonds, including green bonds and regular sovereign bonds,' said Liao Min, vice minister of the Chinese ministry of finance. Officials are also discussing 'how to make issuance in the future on a more regular basis,' he said in response to Bloomberg News questions.
