China’s Commerce Ministry will send a delegation led by vice minister Wang Shouwen to the US for trade talks at the end of August.
The delegation represents the first formal attempt at negotiations since the US imposed tariffs on $16bn of Chinese goods, bringing the amount of goods under tariff to $50bn. The US is threatening tariffs on a much larger range of goods, in a potential blow to China’s export industry.
The delegation travels at the invitation of the American side, the commerce ministry announced on Thursday. It will met with a US delegation led by David Malpass, undersecretary for international affairs at the US Treasury department.