The US negotiator in charge of trade talks with China said Sunday he considers March 1 to be a « hard deadline » for reaching an agreement that would avert an intensifying trade war.
The US negotiator in charge of trade talks with China said Sunday he considers March 1 to be a « hard deadline » for reaching an agreement that would avert an intensifying trade war.
« As far as I’m concerned it’s a hard deadline, » US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on CBS’s « Face the Nation. »
« When I talk to the president of the United States, he’s not talking about going beyond March 1, he’s talking about getting a deal if there is a deal to be gotten in the next 90 days. »
Lighthizer also said that he did not expect the arrest in Canada of a top Chinese executive, Meng Wanzhou of telecom giant Huawei, to interfere with the trade talks.
« It shouldn’t really have much of an impact, » he said. « I can understand from the Chinese perspective how they would see it that way.
