China has announced "significant progress" in trade negotiations with the United States

The Chinese delegation moved to the United States to negotiate an exit from the trade war that the two countries maintain announced Friday that there had been "significant progress", informed the state press agency Xinhua.

On the Chinese side, the negotiations are "frank, concrete and fruitful"", the source said.

These statements come a few hours after the visit of US President Donald Trump. optimistic about the possibility of reaching an ambitious agreement with China this month.

However and despite the "advances", the most difficult chapters between the two largest economies, as the Forced transfer of technology or intellectual property, they are still waiting for resolution.

The United States and China are at trade war since the beginning of last yearbut Xi and Trump agreed on an armistice on December 1 and a 90-day trading deadline expired on March 1.

Although the two parties have met several times since, the arrest complicated the situationthe same December 1st, of the financial director of the Chinese technology company HuaweiMeng Wanzhou, in Canada, at the request of Washington.

At the end of last month, the United States Department of Justice officially charged Meng and Huawei with 13 charges, including money laundering, obstructing justice, fraud and conspiracy to avoid sanctions imposed on Iran, including others

(With information from EFE)