WASHINGTON — A U.S. delegation is expected to travel to China for trade talks next week, according to a senior administration official, marking what would be the first in-person talks since the Group of 20 summit last month.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will travel to Shanghai for meetings with China’s Vice Premier Liu He and his team to resume formal negotiations following their collapse in May, the person said. A White House spokesman declined to provide further details about the trip.
Lighthizer and Mnuchin stressed in “very strong terms” in recent phone calls with Chinese negotiators that the U.S. wants China to agree to buy more American agricultural products, White House economic adviser Lawrence Kudlow told reporters earlier Tuesday. He said China appears willing to do so as a “good-will gesture.”
“They are indicating that they are looking at purchases of agriculture,” Kudlow said. “We hope strongly that China will very soon start buying agriculture products.”
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
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