United States reaches deal to allow exports of natural gas, beef to China

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And White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer started a contentious news briefing Friday by touting the merits of what he called the president's fight for American jobs. On April 10, Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs wrote in The New York Times that "Eurasia will win the trade game". -China exchanges of goods previous year totaled almost $579 billion, almost one-sixth of all USA trade. The U.S. gets to export its beef and natural gas to a growing market. American supplies accounted for nearly 7 percent of China's total imports in March, customs data shows.

But since he hit it off with Chinese President Xi Jinping last month, he has dropped the idea of labelling China a currency manipulator.

"It's another encouraging sign that Trump's willing to cooperate with China rather than adopt the confrontational and protectionist stance he threatened during the election", said Julian Evans-Pritchard, an economist at Capital Economics, about Thursday's agreement. "High-quality beef is in high demand in China, so the deal has great potential for both our businesses and the USA economy as a whole". Both sides also identified other issues that will require significant effort to resolve and achieve progress on within the 100-day period, the US Department of Commerce said in a statement.

The United States is fast becoming a major LNG exporter, though few of its export cargoes to date have been shipped to China.

But Scissors said that hammering friends and neighbors over trade balances while glossing over it with rivals could be counterproductive.

"China has shown its sincerity by making compromises, and it showed that China is not just paying lip service [to addressing the bilateral trade imbalance]", said Yu Miaojie, the deputy head of the National School of Development at Peking University. "That is awful policy - both in terms of trade and in terms of our diplomatic policy". The current crisis, which was undoubtedly triggered by the US-South Korea joint exercise and exacerbated by North Korea's threat to strike the US mainland, has forced President Trump to come to terms with the harshest lesson of all: US needs China to head off any confrontation with North Korea and bring North Korean leader Kim Jung Un's regime back to the negotiating table.

"Nebraska leads the United States in red meat production, and trade drives our economy". "Canada and Mexico are friends of the United States, and their trade practices are better than China's".

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The deal fully lifts the Chinese ban on US beef enacted due to fears of mad cow disease.

The opening of the bond market could bring in US institutional investors, which may stem the capital flight that troubles the Chinese government.

Under the agreement announced by both nations, China will authorise U.S. beef imports by July 16 while the United States will allow Chinese poultry exports.

The issue now will be follow-through.

Foreign-owned firms will be allowed to offer credit-rating services in China by July 16.

A case in point: Telecom ventures.

Potential cooperation between the United States and China on LNG would not have any immediate impact on supplies, as China now does not need new gas supplies and the United States is not yet able to deliver more.

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