On Monday, US and Chinese officials said that they had completed a deal to regain most of their recent tariffs and to describe a 90-day ceasefire in their trade war for further discussions about solving their trade disputes.
The stock markets rose sharply when the two large business powers of the world took a step back through a collision that unsettled the global economy.
The US trade representative Jamieson Greer said that the United States has agreed to reduce its 145 percent of Chinese goods by 115 percentage points to 30 percent, while China agreed to reduce its interest rate for US goods by 10 percent.
Scott Bessent, secretary of Greer and finance minister, announced the reductions in the tariffs at a press conference in Geneva. After two days of the talks, Bessent said that the high tariff levels affect a complete blockage of the goods of the individual pages, a result that no side wants.
“The consensus from both delegations this weekend is not a page that has decoupling,” said Bessent.
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced that the two sides had agreed to cancel 91 percent in the other of the other in tariffs and to expose another 24 percent in tariffs for 90 days, which increased the overall reduction to 115 percentage points.
The ministry described the agreement an important step for solving the differences between the two countries and said it was the basis for further cooperation. It hoped that the United States “stopped the faulty practice of one -sided tariff hikes”.
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Top management officers from the USA and China met in Geneva, Switzerland at the weekend. This was the first time since the beginning of her enormous trade war. The United States has currently used 145 percent tariffs for China. China reacted with 125 percent. These taxes have essentially stopped the business between the two largest economies in the world. Daniel Desrocher is Politico’s International Trade Reporter. He is here to catch up with the latest developments in the World Trade War. For transcripts from front burner please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts
The markets react positively
No mention was mentioned on both sides of the de -minimis exception. On April 2, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 2, a rule that allows small packages worth less than 800 US dollars in the US tax -free packages from China and Hong Kong. Companies such as Shein and Temu, both of whom were founded in China, used the rule to their advantage and grouped orders to the USA as individual packages instead of grouping them in larger shipping boxes.
But investors were happy as a trade competitions from the two largest economies in the world and found paths to withdraw from potentially massive disorders to world trade and their own markets.
The futures for the S&P 500 rose by 2.6 percent and for the Dow Jones Industrial average by two percent. Oil prices rose by more than 1.60 US dollars in US dollars per barrel and the US dollar, which was won against the euro and the Japanese yen.
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Jens Eskelund, President of the Chamber of Commerce of the European Union in China, welcomed the news, but expressed caution. The tariffs were only suspended for 90 days and there is great uncertainty about what is ahead of us, he said in an explanation.
“Companies need predictability to maintain normal business and make investment decisions. The chamber hopes that both sides will continue to dialogue to solve differences and avoid taking measures that disrupt global trade and conduct collateral damage in the crossfire,” said Eskelund.
In the past month, Trump raised US tariffs to China to 145 percent and Ratalized China with the hits of American imports with a delivery of 125 percent. Customs, which essentially the two countries, boycott each other’s products and disrupted the trade, which exceeded 660 billion US dollars last year.
The Trump government has raised tariffs worldwide to countries, but its fight against China was the most intense. Trump’s import taxes for goods from China include an indictment of 20 percent, which is supposed to put Beijing under pressure, to do more to stop the flow of the synthetic opioid fenineyl in the United States. The remaining 125 percent include a dispute from Trump’s first term and come in China, which means that the entire tariffs can exceed 145 percent for some Chinese goods.
