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US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, left, speaks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, right, during a bilateral gathering betwixt the United States and China, successful Geneva, Switzerland, connected Saturday, May 10, 2025.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent connected Tuesday said that helium is apt to hash retired an hold of President Donald Trump's upcoming commercialized deadline with China erstwhile helium meets with his Chinese counterparts successful Stockholm, Sweden, adjacent week.
The 2 sides successful mid-May agreed to a 90-day suspension of astir of the dense tariffs connected each others' goods portion they continued commercialized negotiations. That suspension is acceptable to expire connected Aug. 12.
But "we'll beryllium moving retired what is apt an extension" during talks successful Stockholm connected Monday and Tuesday, Bessent said successful a Fox Business interview.
"I deliberation commercialized is successful a precise bully spot with China," helium said.
Bessent said helium hoped the talks would interaction connected different areas of imaginable agreement, including getting Beijing to dilatory the "glut of manufacturing that they're doing and ore connected gathering a user economy."
The U.S. besides wants to sermon "the sanctioned Russian and Iranian lipid that they're buying there, and what they're doing to assistance Russia and a Ukraine war."
"So I deliberation we've really moved to a caller level with China, wherever it's precise constructive," helium said. "We're going to beryllium capable to get a batch of things done, present that commercialized has benignant of settled successful astatine a bully level."
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