Top US officials will make a trip to China next week in a bid to reignite talks to resolve the trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies.
The White House said on Wednesday that Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, and Steven Mnuchin, the US Treasury secretary, would travel to Shanghai to continue the negotiations starting July 30. Vice Premier Liu He would lead the talks for China, it said in a statement.
The resumption of face-to-face negotiations between Washington and Beijing has been widely expected after Donald Trump, the US president, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, struck a truce at the G20 summit in Japan last month, refraining from further tariffs and setting the stage for more discussions.