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Updated – September 10, 2026 09:38 pm IST – Beijing
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun. File
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China and the U.S. hope to reach an agreement on lowering import taxes soon, a Chinese government spokesperson said Thursday (September 10, 2026), fuelling expectations that an announcement could come when the leaders of the two countries meet in two weeks.
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Negotiators are striving to implement reciprocal tariff reductions on $30 billion of goods “at an early date", Commerce Ministry spokesperson Huang Ling said at a weekly briefing.
She did not elaborate. U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet in Washington on September 24 for what will be their third face-to-face talks in the past year. Both governments characterise the top leader talks as a way to stabilise relations in an era of competing interests between the world's two largest economies.
“Leaders' diplomacy plays an irreplaceable strategic guiding role in China-U.S. relations,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Thursday (September 10).
Mr. Trump and Mr. Xi agreed at their previous meeting in May in Beijing to launch a U.S.-China Board of Trade that would manage trade between the two countries, along with a parallel Board of Investment.
The agreements came after a truce was reached in a blistering tariff war in which Mr. Trump hiked tariffs on Chinese imports to extremely high levels and China responded in kind.
The talks on reciprocal tariff reductions are a central part of the negotiations on creating the Board of Trade. The goal is to identify and reduce tariffs on equivalent amounts of “non-sensitive” goods on each side.
“Trade will be front and centre at the summit,” Barclays Bank said in a research note this week on the upcoming Trump-Xi meeting, noting that the truce the two countries reached on tariffs expires on Nov 10. But it cautioned that the scope for a broad trade deal is limited, and that targeted tariff reductions are more likely.
Published – September 10, 2026 09:37 pm IST
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