China says no ongoing trade talks with the U.S., calls for canceling ‘unilateral’ tariffs

Beijing – China said Thursday that there were no ongoing discussions with the United States on tariffs, despite the indications of the White House this week that would be a facility in tensions.

“At present, there is absolutely no negotiation on the economy and commerce between China and the United States,” said the Ministry of Commerce, He Yadong to Mandarin journalists, translated by CNBC. He added that “all sayings” regarding progress in bilateral conversations must be discarded.

“If the United States really decreases to solve the problem … you should cancel all unilateral measures in China,” he said.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, indicated that it could be a flexibility of tensions with China. The White House previously, this 145% tariffs on Chinese products, to which Beijing responded with the tariffs of their and higher restrictions on critical mineral exports to the United States.

The comments of the Ministry of Commerce echoed those of the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Guo Jiakun, who said on the afternoon that they were not in conversations, according to the state media.

Both Heroes of the spokesman to the official line that China would be willing to speak with the subject of the United States to be treated as an equal.

Several Wall Street banks have reduced their Chinese GDP perspective in recent weeks in the light of rates and increasing tensions with the United States.

The Ministry of Commerce in Thorsday emphasized government and commercial efforts to help companies sell goods destined for exports to the Chinese market.

The United States is the largest commercial partner in China at a single country. But in recent years, Southeast Asia has surpassed the European Union to become the largest commercial partner in China in a regional manner.