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		</div><p>Chinese and US negotiators have adjourned trade talks in Beijing with US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin saying they were &#8220;constructive&#8221;.</p>
<p>Neither side gave any details on whether the talks made progress on issues preventing them from reaching an agreement to end a wide-ranging dispute over technology and industrial policy between the world&#8217;s two biggest economies.</p>
<p>Mr Mnuchin said he and US trade representative Robert Lighthizer had &#8220;concluded constructive trade talks&#8221;.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I look forward to welcoming China&#8217;s vice premier Liu He to continue these important discussions in Washington next week,&#8221;</em> he added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://twitter.com/USTradeRep?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USTradeRep</a> and I concluded constructive trade talks in Beijing. I look forward to welcoming China’s Vice Premier Liu He to continue these important discussions in Washington next week. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USEmbassyChina?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USEmbassyChina</a> <a href="https://t.co/ikfcDZ10IL">pic.twitter.com/ikfcDZ10IL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Steven Mnuchin (@stevenmnuchin1) <a href="https://twitter.com/stevenmnuchin1/status/1111534387328417792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Mr Mnuchin and Mr Lighthizer attended a working dinner with Mr Liu on Thursday night, shortly after their arrival in the Chinese capital. It was not clear when the US envoys planned to leave Beijing.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump expressed optimism about the talks last week, saying: <em>&#8220;We&#8217;re getting very close.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Mr Lighthizer said earlier this week that questions about details and enforcement remained to be answered.</p>
<p>The meetings are the latest in a rapid-fire series of exchanges seeking to end the conflict that is disrupting trade in goods from soybeans to medical equipment.</p>
<p>&#8220;Both teams are currently sparing no effort&#8221; on the negotiations, Chinese commerce ministry spokesman Gao Feng said during a regularly scheduled briefing.</p>
<p>A stumbling block appears to be Washington&#8217;s insistence on an enforcement mechanism with penalties if Beijing fails to follow through on commitments, but trade analysts expect at least a preliminary accord in coming weeks or months.</p>
<p>The negotiations are unlikely to resolve conflicts that have troubled US-Chinese relations for two decades, including China&#8217;s massive trade surplus with the US and accusations it has stolen or coerced the transfer of foreign technology for its own use.</p>
<p>Mr Trump raised duties last year on Chinese imports in response to companies&#8217; complaints. Last week, he said he wanted to keep in place the 25% taxes on $50 billion dollars (€44 billion) of Chinese goods that he imposed in July.</p>
<p>Washington followed those with 10% duties on an additional $200 billion (€178 billion). All told, the American tariffs covered roughly half of what the US buys from China.</p>
<p>However, Mr Trump postponed another tariff hike that had been set for March 1. That may have reduced US leverage in seeking Chinese concessions.</p>
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