WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was too early to pledge to lift Washington’s tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese goods, but his chief trade negotiator, Katherine Tai, was working on the issue.
“I would like to be able to say that they meet their commitments, or more, and remove some (tariffs), but we are not there yet,” he said during the interview. a press conference at the White House, in reference to the commitments made by Beijing as part of the “Phase 1” trade agreement signed with the administration of former President Donald Trump.
(Report Alexandra Alper, written by Andrea Shalal; French version Jean Terzian)