China Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng confirmed in a regular press briefing that US delegation is traveling to Beijing next week to continue trade negotiation. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will visit China on March 28-29. After that Vice Premier Liu He will travel to the Washington in early April for more talks.
Gao also noted that the decline is import and expect during the first two months of the year was mainly due to Chinese New Year. He noted the typical pattern of “concentrated export pre CNG, concentrated import post CNY”. Though, he also said trade rebounded strongly during the first half of March. And, Q1 trade will remain stability.