The US State Department said on Tuesday that inter-governmental talks between the US and the DPRK will become a "regular course of business", with denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula as the focus.
The US government has flown about 800 people from Hubei province, placing them under 14-day quarantine at US military bases.
The US and EU have since July been in talks to scale back the tariffs, with Trump holding out the bigger threat of slapping tariffs on European cars — a huge industry in the region — should the negotiations not yield a result. U.S. officials have repeatedly expressed frustration at the slow pace of the talks.
The US and Canada closed their border except for cargo and “essential” traffic.
The USTR's proposed list will undergo further review in a public notice and comment period, including a hearing. After completion of the process, the USTR will issue a final determination on the products subject to the additional duties.
The US has the most confirmed cases of any country, but its response is hampered by a lack of testing. Experts largely agree that widespread medical surveillance is critical for effectively fighting the pandemic, especially for finding asymptomatic spreaders.
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The US Congressional-Executive Commission on China issued a statement on the fifth anniversary of the "Occupy Central" movement. In response, the spokesperson of the Commissioner's Office said that the statement, which has completely distorted the truth, is an outright interference in China's internal affairs and a despicable clumsy show. The Chinese side deplores and firmly opposes it.
The U.S. northwesternmost state of Alaska exported .93 billion of goods in 2017, with over .32 billion going to China, and "disparaging our customers shrinks our economy at a time when we desperately need growth," they asserted.
The US first announced the tariffs on March 1 after a US Commerce Department investigation under Section 232 of US Trade Expansion Act of 1962 found the imports threatening to US national security.
The United States has abundant oil and gas resources, which China is short of, and the fast growth of the Chinese economy needs energy. That offers a good business opportunity for the US energy sector, Hofmeister said.