It would mark the first face-to-face meeting
between U.S. and Chinese trade teams since presidents Donald
Trump and Xi Jinping agreed at a G20 summit in Japan to revive
talks to end their year-long trade war.
The governments of the world's largest economies have levied
billions of dollars of tariffs on each other's imports,
disrupted global supply chains and shaken financial markets in
their dispute over how China does business with the rest of the
world.
China had agreed to make unspecified purchases of U.S. farm
goods, according to the White House, and the timing of the next
round of talks came after Chinese officials briefed a private
importers last Friday on a plan to boost soybean purchases.
"Some Chinese firms are willing to continue to buy some U.S.
agricultural goods, and they have asked for prices from their
U.S. suppliers and will sign commercial contracts soon,"
ministry spokesman Gao Feng told a news conference.
The purchases will be decided by companies themselves according
market-based rules, said Gao, adding that the restarting of
trade talks had no direct bearing on the U.S. agriculture buys.
(Reporting by Stella Qiu and Kevin Yao; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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