China denies that you are negotiating with the US; Ask to cancel tariffs

Beijing The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied that commercial conversations have already been initiated with Washington, after President Donald Trump was said open to an agreement and that yesterday he claimed that a meeting had already been held.

China refused to have had commercial conversations with Washington, despite the repeated comments of the US government about it.

China and the United States have not carried out consultations or negotiations on tariffs, much less have reached an agreementthe spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Guo Jiakun, qualifying such reports from False news.

In addition, Beijing asked the cancellation of all tariffs Unilateral American.

United States should eliminate all Unilateral tariff measures against China If you really want Solve the commercial problem, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, He Yadong, at a press conference in which he repeated a Chinese proverb: Who tied the bell must unleash it.

Meanwhile, the Governor of the Popular Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, said during the meeting of finance ministers and governors of Central Banks of the G20 that the Asian country will firmly support the rules of free trade and the multilateral system. Unilateralism and protectionism They have no way out And they don’t benefit anyone, Pan said.

Previously, Trump declared that meetings had been held earlier. They had a meeting this morningTrump told journalists, but declined to clarify who he was referring to. “It doesn’t matter who ‘they’ are. We can reveal it later, but they had meetings this morning, and we have met with China,” he added.

In his social truth network, Trump published that Boeing I should declare China in non -compliance for not accepting the planes that had pledged to buy. Described this situation as a small example of what China has done to the United States for years.

For his part, the Minister of Economy of France, Eric Lombard, acknowledged before journalists in Washington that the European Union and the United States are still Far from an agreement About tariffs, while the block looks for an exit to the commercial war unleashed by Trump.

The official, who participates in the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, added that the dialogues with US officials have been cordial.