{"id":23985,"date":"2018-12-02T05:25:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23985"},"modified":"2018-12-02T05:25:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T05:25:18","slug":"trump-agrees-to-freeze-higher-tariffs-on-200m-in-chinese-goods-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23985","title":{"rendered":"Trump agrees to freeze higher tariffs on $200M in Chinese goods \u2014 for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The leaders of the world&#8217;s two largest economies, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, agreed to a temporary truce on trade Saturday at a highly anticipated dinner in Argentina.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">After a two-and-a-half hour discussion, Trump agreed to maintain the 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, and not raise them to 25% &#8220;at this time&#8221; ahead of a January 1 deadline, according to a White House statement from press secretary Sarah Sanders.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In exchange, China agreed it was willing to purchase a &#8220;very substantial&#8221; amount of agriculture, energy and other goods from the United States to help reduce the trade imbalance.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The leaders of the world&#8217;s two largest economies, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, agreed to a temporary truce on trade Saturday at a highly anticipated dinner in Argentina.After a two-and-a-half hour discussion, Trump agreed to maintain the 10% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, and not raise them to 25% &#8220;at this time&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}