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China will open its door wider to foreign products as free trade
needs to be firmly upheld to ensure sustained global economic
growth, Li told a summit of eastern European leaders in Sofia.
"For foreign products which meet Chinese consumer needs, we
would open the door wider... We would lower overall import
tariffs to the Chinese market," he said through an interpreter,
without going into details.
Li said economic reform had played a critical role in China's
growth, and that the fundamentals underpinning it remained
unchanged.
"Opening up has been a key driver of China's reform agenda so we
will continue to open wider to the world, including widening
market access for foreign investors," he said.
Beijing earlier accused Washington of triggering the
"largest-scale trade war". U.S. duties on a range of Chinese
imported goods took effect on Friday and were immediately
countered by measures from China.
Neither side gave any sign of willingness to start talks aimed
at a reaching a truce, though Li said on Friday that a trade war
was never a solution and no one would gain from it.
He spoke on Saturday to central and eastern European leaders at
an annual "16+1" gathering aimed a boosting business ties and
investments.
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; Writing by Jason Hovet; editing
by John Stonestreet)
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