US President, Donald Trump has the on 1. March deadline in the trade dispute with China moved. On Twitter he spoke to Trump by “significant progress” in trade talks with Beijing.

US President Donald Trump has announced a postponement of its deadline for new tariffs in trade dispute with China. Reason, the “substantial progress” in recent negotiations, Trump wrote on Twitter. These concern, among other things, the protection of intellectual property, technology transfer, monetary issues and agricultural goods.

at the same time, he announced that “under the prerequisite of additional progress” in the talks it is planned to have a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago in Florida. “A very good weekend for the United States and China,” concluded Trump his Tweet. For more information on the extension of the deadline, he made it.

90 days time for negotiations

Trump and Xi had agreed in December to place the original for the beginning of January, threatened the next round of punitive tariffs on ice cream and to seek a solution to the trade dispute. Within 90 days, the duties should not be increased on Chinese Goods as planned.