{"id":428558,"date":"2026-03-16T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/chinese-trade-negotiator-li-on-talks-with-us-we-reached-preliminary-consensus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:00:18","slug":"chinese-trade-negotiator-li-on-talks-with-us-we-reached-preliminary-consensus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/chinese-trade-negotiator-li-on-talks-with-us-we-reached-preliminary-consensus\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese trade negotiator Li on talks with US: We reached preliminary consensus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,0,0\">We had in-depth, candid talks<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,1,0\">Talked about bilateral tariffs under new circumstances<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,2,0\">Talked about possible extension of tariff suspensions, other matters<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,3,0\">Talked about concerns of trade, economic issues<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,4,0\">U.S. talked about on recent tariff adjustments<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,5,0\">Chinese side voiced concerns<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,6,0\">Both sides agreed to maintain stability of tariff levels<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,7,0\">Discussed mechanisms on trade, investment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,8,0\">Both sides discussed trade, economic concerns of each other<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,9,0\">We noticed U.S. roll out of restrictive measures on China<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1,10,0\">China raised representations on Section 301 probes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is generally good news, particularly the &#8216;consensus&#8217; part. I tend to think these are the basically the headlines and part of a deal that would have been announced with Trump and Xi. That was going to be a small event in any case and now there are strong signs that summit will be cancelled. Trump is now fighting a war that he&#8217;s improvising and asking China to send war ships to patrol the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The market is in a good mood today and this will further help. S&amp;P 500 futures are up 63 points to 6699 while the US dollar is sagging across the board. US 10-year yields are down 5.1 bps to 4.23% as the market senses that Trump is looking for an off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had in-depth, candid talks Talked about bilateral tariffs under new circumstances Talked about possible extension of tariff suspensions, other matters Talked about concerns of trade, economic issues U.S. talked about on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}