President Donald Trump has reached a 90-day agreement to avoid new tariffs and allow negotiations with China to proceed, the White House said.
The agreement was the culmination of a two and half hour dinner with Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Argentina, temporarily heading off further escalation of the trade war.
As part of the truce, Trump revoked a plan to raise tariffs on certain Chinese goods to 25 per cent on January 1, the White House noted in a statement.
The White House also said that China has agreed to label the deadly opioid fentanyl, which is behind tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the U.S., as a controlled substance.
The dinner between President Trump and President Xi went 'very well' a White House adviser said
The dinner was Trump's last event of the G20 summit
Trump praised the meeting as 'amazing' and 'productive' and touted his friendship with Xi.
'This was an amazing and productive meeting with unlimited possibilities for both the United States and China. It is my great honor to be working with President Xi,' he said in a statement.
The White House also touted Beijing's agreement to buy U.S. agricultural products as a win for farmers - a group that heavily supported Trump in the presidential election.
Farmers - and the lawmakers who represented them - worried they would suffer the most under the trade war, which saw China tax products like soybeans and oranges.
'President Trump has agreed that on January 1, 2019, he will leave the tariffs on $200 billion worth of product at the 10% rate, and not raise it to 25% at this time. China will agree to purchase a not yet agreed upon, but very substantial, amount of agricultural, energy, industrial, and other product from the United States to reduce the trade imbalance between our two countries. China has agreed to start purchasing agricultural product from our farmers immediately,' White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Saturday night.
The two leaders agreed to work together to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula - although no further details were released on that matter.
The dinner meeting between Trump and Xi went 'very well,' said White economic adviser Larry Kudlow to reporters before Air Force One left Argentina to return to Washington.
Trump and Xi met with their respective delegations for almost two and a half hours
Before the food was served Trump told reporters he and Xi had 'established an incredible relationship' and he believed it would help as the two super powers looked to cease the trade war between them.
And Xi said the meeting - the first face-to-face between the two since the show down started - was a 'manifestation of a personal friendship.'
The dinner capped Trump's 48 hours in Buenos Aires for the G20 summit and was one of the most important items on his agenda amid worries about what a rising trade war would do to the U.S. economy.
He and first lady Melania Trump - who did not attend the dinner - left for the airport as soon as it ended.
Trump's swan song ended in the same way other events finished for him at the G20 - quietly, not a long comments to the press and slightly ahead of schedule.
Trump opened his dinner with Xi with a tribute to the late President George H.W. Bush and announced he's sending Air Force One to Houston to bring the leader's remains to Washington D.C.
'It's a special honor he deserves very much,' Trump said.
He noted he and the American delegation will return to Washington D.C. after the dinner with Xi and, from there, Air Force One - the president's signature plane - will fly to Houston to bring the late president's remains to the capital city, where he will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol building and have a state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral.
President Trump opened his trade dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping with a tribute to the late President George H.W. Bush
Trump, Xi and their delegations are having a critical dinner as a trade war rages
Former President George H.W. Bush died on Friday
'Air Force One will be taking myself and a group of our people back to Washington. It will then be reset and it will be sent to Houston to pick up the casket of President Bush and it will be sent back to Washington,' he said.
Trump called it a 'special tribute.'
'He'll be missed. He'll be greatly missed,' the president added.
The 41st president of the United States, Bush, 93, died just eight months after the loss of his wife Barbara, whom he had been married to for 73 years.
Grilled Sirloin with red onions, goat ricotta, and dates was on the menu and trade was the main item on the agenda, but it barely garnered a mention from the president.
Trump started his remarks by talking about his predecessor in the Oval Office.
'We'll be spending three days of mourning and three days of celebrating a really great man's life,' he said. 'He certainly deserves it.'
He also thanked Xi for his words of condolence for the Bush family. The late President Bush was the one-time ambassador to China.
Bush boarding Air Force One when he was president
Air Force One will fly to Houston to bring Bush's remains to Washington D.C.
Then Trump finally turned to the topic at hand: his dinner with Xi.
He said he was planning to press the Chinese president about fentanyl. China is believed to be a major source of synthetic pain killer, which has been popping up in heroin, causing a spike in over doses.
Trump also said they'd be talking trade. China and the United States are in the midst of trade war with billions of dollars in tariffs at play against one another.
'We'll be discussing trade and I think at some point we're gong to end up doing something that's great for China and great for the United States,' he said.
Trump pointed to the leaders' great relationship: 'That's going to be a very primary reason that we'll probably end up getting something that is good for China and good for the United States.'
Xi, speaking via a translator, said it is a 'great pleasure' to have the meeting.
'It has been quite a while since our previous meeting,' he said. 'A lot of things have taken place in the world.'
The two leaders are meeting face-to-face for the first time since the trade war began between the two economic super powers.
Trump and Xi were seated across from each other in the middle of the table, surrounded by their respective delegations on their left and right.
The guests were arranged around a long rectangular table. A crystal chandelier hung over it and a row of flowers ran down the middle. Two American flags and two Chinese flags stood at the end of the room.
Joining the president in the American delegation were:
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Chief of Staff John Kelly, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, National Security Advisor John Bolton, White House adviser Jared Kushner, White House adviser Peter Navarro, and economic adviser Larry Kudlow.
Trump on Friday revealed willing to double and even quadruple tariffs on China as he shrugged off the economic competitor's enhanced global influence.
The president told Voice of America in an interview on the margins of the G20 summit that he doesn't want to bear down on China further, but he will, in order to reign in the country that has expanded it footprint to Latin America.
'I think they're going to have less money than they have right now,' he said of the $250 billion in tariffs he's already slapped on Beijing. 'We're going to be taking in billions and billions of dollars, plus I can double that up, and then I can double it again.'
Trump has expressed optimism the two leaders can come to a deal.
'We're working very hard. If we can make a deal that'd be good. I think they want to, and I think we'd like to,' he told reporters during a meeting with Japan's Shinzo Abe. 'There's some good signs. We'll see what happens.'
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Main photo article President Donald Trump has reached a 90-day agreement to avoid new tariffs and allow negotiations with China to proceed, the White House said.
The agreement was the culmination of a two and half hour dinner with Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 s...
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