{"id":400645,"date":"2019-03-21T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-says-china-tariffs-to-stay-for-substantial-period\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:12:49","slug":"presstv-trump-says-china-tariffs-to-stay-for-substantial-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-says-china-tariffs-to-stay-for-substantial-period\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump says China tariffs to stay for \u2018substantial period\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has warned that he might keep imposing heavy tariffs on Chinese goods for a \u201csubstantial period\u201d to make sure that China will comply with any possible trade agreement resulting from ongoing mutual talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said his top negotiators, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin were headed to Beijing this week to continue the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deal is coming along nicely,\u201d Trump said, adding that the China trip was intended \u201cto further the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This could further complicate the talks as unnamed sources have told Reuters that Chinese officials would only agree to a deal when the US fully lifts tariffs imposed on its imports.<\/p>\n<p>In December last year, the American president imposed a March 1 deadline on Beijing, saying that if the deadline expired without enough concessions from China for a comprehensive trade&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/03\/21\/591610\/US-China-trade-war-Trump-tariffs\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has warned that he might keep imposing heavy tariffs on Chinese goods for a \u201csubstantial period\u201d to make sure that China will comply with any possible trade agreement resulting from ongoing mutual talks. Speaking to the reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said his top negotiators, US Trade Representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}