A conversation between the presidents of the US and China is considered key to possible flexibility or delay of tariffs, but Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is not hurried.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he is not in a hurry to speak with his counter All Chinese imports.
China reacted with specific tariffs on US imports on Tuesday and put several companies, including Google, on notice of possible sanctions, in a comedy response to Trump's tariffs.
“It's fine,” Trump said in the White House when asked about China's retaliation tariffs.
A conversation between XI and Trump is considered key to possible flexibility or delay of tariffs, as the conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Canada already did on Monday.
The White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters that it was still necessary to schedule a call between Trump and XI.
“President XI did contact President Trump to talk about this, maybe to start a negotiation. So we will see how that call is going,” Leavitt told Fox Business Network early on Tuesday.
Beijing's limited response to the imposition by the United States of a 10 % tariff to all Chinese imports underlined the attempt of Chinese political leaders to establish conversations with Trump to avoid an open commercial war between the two largest economies in the world .
Capital Economics, a research firm based in the United Kingdom, estimated that additional China tariffs would apply to about 20,000 million dollars of annual imports, compared to the 450,000 million dollars in Chinese goods subject to Trump's tariff.
“The measures are quite modest, at least in relation to the movements of the United States, and have been calibrated to send a message to the United States,” said Julian Evans-Pritchard, head of the Chinese firm Economics, in a note.
Trump suspended on Monday his threat of imposing 25 % tariffs on Mexico and Canada, agreeing a 30 -day break in exchange for border concessions and the fight against crime.