"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.
