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Trump and Xi are set to meet. Where do US-China tariffs stand?
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- Osmond Chia Business reporter VGC via Getty Images Trump and Xi when they met in South Korea last year Beijing has confirmed that US President Donald Trump will travel to China this week to meet Xi Jinping.
- The visit, from the 13 - 15 May, will be the first to China by a US president in nearly a decade - and comes at a pivotal moment for ties between the world's two largest economies.
- Executives from some of America's biggest companiess - including Boeing, Citigroup and Qualcomm - are expected to travel with Trump, potentially to make deals with Chinese firms.
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Osmond Chia Business reporter VGC via Getty Images Trump and Xi when they met in South Korea last year Beijing has confirmed that US President Donald Trump will travel to China this week to meet Xi Jinping.
The visit, from the 13 - 15 May, will be the first to China by a US president in nearly a decade - and comes at a pivotal moment for ties between the world's two largest economies.
Executives from some of America's biggest companiess - including Boeing, Citigroup and Qualcomm - are expected to travel with Trump, potentially to make deals with Chinese firms. It will also mark a key test in the fragile trade truce between Washington and Beijing.
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