JAKARTA - US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessentmengatakan dirinya melakukan perundingan "positif" dengan Wakil Perdana Menteri China He Lifeng terkait implementasi perjanjian ekonomi antara Presiden AS Donald Trump dan pemimpin China Xi Jinping.
"During my meeting this week with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, we had a positive discussion on the implementation of the economic agreement between President Trump and President Xi," Bessent wrote on X, as quoted by ANTARA from Sputnik, Wednesday, January 21.
Bessent hopes to hold further meetings with He in the near future.
Currently, the finance minister is in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum which takes place from January 19 to 23.
Trump and Xi agreed to a one-year trade deal during their meeting at South Korea's Gimhae Air Base in Busan in late October.
The US lowered the average tariff on Chinese goods from 57 percent to 47 percent by reducing the fentanyl tariff for imports of the country to 10 percent, while China allowed an increase in imports of US agricultural products.
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