Lower Level Aides To Resume Trade Talks On Tuesday

US-China trade talks aimed at ending a damaging tariff war will resume from Tuesday in Washington, the White House has announced.

The last set of talks ended on Friday in Beijing with no deal, though US President Donald Trump said the discussions were going "extremely well" and suggested he could extend a March 1 truce deadline for an agreement to be reached.

The next round of negotiations will commence with deputy-level meetings before moving on to principal-level talks on Thursday, a White House statement said.

Confirming this, the central government announcement on Tuesday, carried by the Xinhua News Agency, said Vice Premier Liu He will hold talks with US Trade Representative Robet Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

On Friday, Trump re-iterated he might be willing to hold off on increasing tariffs to 25 percent from the current 10 percent on March 1 on US$200 billion in Chinese goods if Washington and Beijing are close to finalizing an agreement to deal with US complaints about unfair trade and theft of American technology.

The talks are aimed at "achieving needed structural changes in China that affect trade between the United States and China," the White House statement on Monday said.

"The two sides will also discuss China's pledge to purchase a substantial amount of goods and services from the United States." (AFP, AP)