TRADE WAR: US, China talks to continue, but tariff hike on Beijing goods remain, Trump says

The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has informed that trade teams from China and the United States will continue to talk and will meet in September.

However, Trump who has alternated between expressing optimism about a trade deal and criticism of China for its economic policies, insisted on Friday that tariff increases on Chinese goods set to go in place on Sunday will not be delayed.

“We’re going to win the fight,” Trump told reporters in Washigton. “We’re having conversations with China, meetings are scheduled, calls are being made. I guess the meeting in September continues to be on, it hasn’t been canceled,” he said.

Reports say uncertainty about when or how the dispute between the US and China could end has upset markets and complicated corporations’ long-term investment plans.

The tit-for-tat tariff war between the world’s two largest economies now involves hundreds of billions of dollars of each country’s goods and threatens global economic growth.

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