Trade disputes remain between the US and China, despite the ceremony of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent summit with Donald Trump, his US counterpart, in Washington.
Beijing’s restrictions on the export of rare earths, which forced Trump to back off his campaign of sweeping tariffs on China, remain a pressing issue.
Meanwhile, China and the EU launched tit-for-tat trade investigations in the run-up to crunch talks last week between EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič and his Chinese opposite number, commerce minister Wang Wentao, in Beijing.
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