US President Donald Trump on Monday said he is likely to speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the coming days, claiming a “total reset” in relations and asserting that the weekend talks would prove great for “unification and peace”.
“The talks in Geneva were very friendly,” Trump said of the negotiations that took place in Switzerland on Saturday and Sunday. “The relationship is very, very good. I’ll speak to President Xi maybe at the end of the week.”
That includes 25 per cent tariffs that the American leader slapped on imports from China during his first administration, 20 per cent tied to fentanyl and 10 per cent applied broadly to all countries.
China agreed, meanwhile, to drop its US import levy to 10 per cent.
Speaking from the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Trump said the two sides would set up a trade consultation mechanism and use the next 90 days to negotiate on the “largest structural issues” in their trade relationship.
