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China offered to pare $200 bn in trade surplus over US, says Kudlow

Kudlow confirmed the trade surplus offer but declined to detail it

Larry Kudlow
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Larry Kudlow

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China offered to reduce its trade surplus with the US by “at least $200 billion” in talks to head off a possible trade war, the director of the White House National Economic Council said.

“The number’s a good number,” Larry Kudlow, President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser, told reporters at the White House on Friday. “I think just as important, they have to lower their tariff rates, they have to lower their non-tariff barriers. We have to have a verifiable process whereby the technology transfers and the theft of intellectual property stops.”

Earlier on Friday a Chinese foreign ministry official and posts

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