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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The US and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Donald Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India.<\/b><\/p>\n

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg TV that the deal was signed earlier this week. Neither Lutnick nor Trump provided any details about the agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just signed with China the other day,\u201d Trump said late Thursday.<\/p>\n

Lutnick said the deal was \u201csigned and sealed\u201d two days earlier.<\/p>\n

It was unclear if the latest agreement was different from the one Trump announced two weeks earlier that he said would make it easier for American industries to obtain much-needed needed magnets and rare earth minerals. That pact cleared the way for the trade talks to continue, while the US agreed to stop trying to revoke visas of Chinese nationals on US college campuses.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Commerce Ministry said Friday that the two sides had \u201cfurther confirmed the details of the framework.\u201d But its statement did not explicitly mention US access to rare earths, minerals used in high-tech applications that have been at the center of the negotiations.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina will approve the export applications of controlled items that meet the conditions in accordance with the law. The United States will cancel a series of restrictive measures taken against China accordingly. It is hoped that the United States and China will meet each other halfway,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The agreement follows initial talks in Geneva in early May that led both sides to postpone massive tariff hikes that were threatening to freeze much trade between the two countries. Later talks in London set a framework for negotiations and the deal mentioned by Trump appeared to formalise that agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president likes to close these deals himself. He’s the dealmaker. We’re going to have deal after deal,\u201d Lutnick said.<\/p>\n

Rare earth exports<\/b><\/p>\n

China has not announced any new agreements, but it said earlier this week that it was speeding up approvals of exports of rare earths, materials used in high-tech products such as electric vehicles. Beijing’s limits on exports of rare earths have been a key point of contention.<\/p>\n

The Chinese Commerce Ministry said Thursday that Beijing was accelerating review of export license applications for rare earths and had approved \u201ca certain number of compliant applications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Export controls of the minerals apparently eclipsed tariffs in the latest round of trade negotiations between Beijing and Washington after China imposed permitting requirements on seven rare earth elements in April, threatening to disrupt production of cars, robots, wind turbines and other high-tech products in the US and around the world.<\/p>\n

China also has taken steps recently on the fentanyl issue, announcing last week that it would designate two more substances as precursor chemicals for fentanyl, making them subject to production, transport and export regulations. Trump has demanded that Beijing do more to stop the flow of such precursor ingredients to Mexican drug cartels, which use them to make fentanyl for sale in the US He imposed 20% tariffs on Chinese imports over the fentanyl issue, the biggest part of current 30% across-the-board taxes on Chinese goods.<\/p>\n

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