The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Tuesday that China wants an agreement on tariffs “desperately, but they do not know how to start” to negotiate and that the White House is waiting for the call of the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, after the reciprocal imposition of high tariffs and the threats of new crossed protectionist measures between both countries.
In a message on his social network social, the president wrote that China “wants to reach an agreement, but does not know how to start it. We wait for his call. It will happen!”
Trump’s words arrive after Beijing warned that he is not going to back down the last threat of the New York tycoon of imposing additional tariffs of 50% and that he will respond with more levies if the US president activates the measure tomorrow Wednesday.
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Trump says that China does not know how to approach them, but will end up negotiating tariffs
Trump said that if China does not withdraw its battery of reciprocal tariffs of 34% for today’s noon, east coast (16:00 GMT), will implement from tomorrow another additional 50% game that would make exports to the US to the Asian giant load with tariffs of up to 104%.
In the possible future negotiations between Beijing and Washington is also the future of the Tiktok application in the US, which the Trump government has demanded to separate its matrix, the China Bytedonce, to be able to operate in US territory.
The most aggressive phase of the commercial war that the Republican has undertaken against the rest of the world started on April 2 when it presented 10% global tariffs and higher rates for other regions and countries such as China and the European Union (EU).
The markets have reacted since then with strong losses, especially because of the effects that a large -scale commercial war between the two main economies in the world may have globally.
With EFE information.
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