United States (US) delegation is expected to travel to China for trade talks next week, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday (July 23), marking what would be the first in-person talks since the Group of 20 summits last month. The two days meeting will be held in Shanghai on July 30.
US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will lead the US delegation. The White House said in an official statement the talks with Vice Premier Liu He and his teams, will “cover a range of issues, including intellectual property, forced technology transfer, non-tariff barriers, agriculture, services, the trade deficit, and enforcement”.
Senior officials have spoken by phone twice in the last two weeks in the bid to jump-start the negotiations. Mnuchin hopes to make progress but added there are “a lot of issues” pending so he expects another round of talks would follow in Washington.
