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Wang Yi: US State Visit Deal Includes $30B Mutual Tariff Cuts

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the US and China agreed on a new joint arrangement ahead of President Xi Jinping’s state visit, including trade and investment councils, an agriculture working group and $30 billion in reciprocal tariff cuts. The deal extends the Kuala Lumpur trade talks outcome, steadying economic ties and market confidence. Wang warned that US national-security overreach and decoupling pressure shrink the two sides’ shared interests.

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The significance lies less in the headline tariff figure than in the architecture: trade and investment councils plus a dedicated agriculture working group create standing channels that outlast any single negotiation. That matters most for cross-border capital flows and commodity-linked exposure, where policy predictability drives positioning more than the cuts themselves. Wang's own caveat about security overreach and decoupling pressure is the tension worth watching — institutional dialogue can coexist with continued restrictions, and whether the councils actually convene and produce is the open question.

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