"When I talked to the president of the United States, he's not talking about going beyond March," Amb. Robert Lighthizer said
U. S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said March 1 marks a « hard deadline » for the U. S. and China to reach a firm trade agreement.
Mr. Trump claimed China had agreed to « reduce and remove » tariffs at a meeting at the G-20 summit in Argentina, but China has been less reluctant to say so — and U. S. administration officials had different takes on how firm any agreement with China was. The two countries are continuing talks for 90 days.
« As far as I’m concerned, it’s a hard deadline, » Lighthizer said on « Face the Nation » Sunday. « When I talked to the president of the United States, he’s not talking about going beyond March. He’s talking about getting a deal. If there is a deal to be gotten, we want to get it in the next 90 days. »
Those talks, however, have been complicated by the arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecom firm Huawei. China has summoned the U.
