US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters from the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Donald Trump denies agreeing to roll back trade war tariffs on China, despite earlier reports

Beijing on Thursday said the two sides had agreed to roll back tariffs on each others’ goods as part of a ‘phase one’ trade deal
But the US president denied this on Friday, telling reporters that he had not agreed to roll back tariffs

Topic | Donald Trump

Robert Delaney in Washington

Published: 11:42pm, 8 Nov, 2019

Updated: 11:21pm, 9 Nov, 2019

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters from the South Lawn of the White House on Friday. Photo: Reuters

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Robert Delaney

Robert Delaney is the Post’s North America bureau chief. He spent 11 years in China as a language student and correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires and Bloomberg, and continued covering the country as a correspondent and an academic after leaving. His debut novel, The Wounded Muse, draws on actual events that played out in Beijing while he lived there.