AFP, WASHINGTONThe US-China trade deal is “remarkable” in scope, but it would not solve all the problems between the world’s two biggest economies, the top US negotiator said on Sunday. In 2017, before the US-China trade dispute was unleashed, the US exported about US$120 billion in goods to the Asian giant. “Over the course of the last year, what this president [US President Donald Trump] has accomplished in this area is remarkable,” Lighthizer said, referring also to the just-concluded US-Mexico-Canada trade deal and others. “It really is a remarkable agreement, but it’s not going to solve all the problems,” he said. The deal enables the two sides to declare a truce in a trade dispute that has roiled the global economy for the past 18 months.
