China and the US may take the long-awaited step to ease trade tensions and sign a significant part of a new trade deal next month, US President Donald Trump has announced.
“We are looking probably to be ahead of schedule to sign a very big portion of the China deal, we’ll call it Phase One but it’s a very big portion,” he told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Monday, before leaving for a visit to Chicago.
He added that the pact may be signed at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Chile on November 16–17.
