{"id":58191,"date":"2020-01-11T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58191"},"modified":"2020-01-11T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T03:35:13","slug":"us-pres-trump-says-china-trade-deal-may-be-signed-shortly-after-jan-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58191","title":{"rendered":"US Pres Trump says China trade deal may be signed shortly after Jan 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldBusiness\/Trump-says-China-trade-deal-may-be-signed-shortly-after-January-15-833935?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/743\/74373742.295.jpg\" alt=\"U.S President, Donald Trump and President Xi of China\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; US President Donald Trump, who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on Jan 15, said the agreement could be signed \u201cshortly thereafter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview with the ABC TV affiliate in Toledo, Ohio, Trump said: \u201cWe\u2019re going to be signing on January 15th &#8211; I think it will be January 15th, but shortly thereafter, but I think January 15th &#8211; a big deal with China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump announced the Jan 15 signing date in a tweet on Dec 31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for clarification of Trump\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Phase 1 deal, struck last month, is expected to reduce tariffs and boost Chinese purchases of American farm, energy and manufactured goods while addressing some disputes over intellectual property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, head of the country\u2019s negotiating team in Sino-US trade talks, will sign the deal in Washington next week, China\u2019s commerce ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liu will visit Washington from Jan 13-15, said Gao Feng, spokesman at the commerce ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negotiating teams from both sides remain in close communication on the particular arrangements of the signing, Gao told reporters at a regular briefing. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; US President Donald Trump, who announced last month that the Phase 1 trade deal with China would be signed on Jan 15, said the agreement could be signed \u201cshortly thereafter.\u201d In an interview with the ABC TV affiliate in Toledo, Ohio, Trump said: \u201cWe\u2019re going to be signing on January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}