Top American and Chinese trade negotiators resumed talks in the US capital yesterday, just hours after Washington raised tariffs on US$200 billion (S$273 billion) worth of Chinese goods and with Beijing's threat of countermeasures looming.
The United States went ahead with the hike, increasing tariffs by 15 percentage points to 25 per cent at 12.01am yesterday in the US, after the first day of trade talks failed to yield an unlikely breakthrough.
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