The United States said trade talks with China had allowed "progress"

The trade talks that took place this week in Beijing between the United States and China have resulted in a "progressbetween the two parties, said the White House Friday, confirming that the dialogue will continue in Washington next week.

"These in-depth and intense discussions allowed for progress between the two parties"said a press release from the White House press office.

"However, there is a lot of work to be done. Both parties will continue to work on all outstanding issues by the March 1, 2019 deadline. to increase tariffs by 10% on some imported Chinese products, "he added.

The delegations of China and the United States they will resume negotiations in Washington. A senior US official said that there were still problems "very difficult"to solve, official sources informed, according to the agency AFP.

"Next week, the two parties will meet in Washington.", Confirmed the President of China, Xi Jinping, during the reception in Beijing of the main American negotiators after two days of talks.

"I hope you will continue to work hard to promote a mutually beneficial agreement," he said.

For its part, at the beginning of the meeting, the US Trade Representative, Robert LighthizerHe said that the two economic giants still had a difficult task.

"We believe that we need to make progress on very, very important and very difficult issues"Lighthizer told Xi."We had two very good days of negotiations"he added.

The delegations of the two giants met for two days in the Chinese capital to try to reduce trade tensions which generated a war of mutual tariffs.

At the hearing on Friday, Xi said, "Sino-US relations have great common interests in safeguarding world peace and stability and in promoting prosperity and global economic development. ".

The United States delegation included the Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, in addition to Lighthizer and other senior officials from the commercial sector.

On the other side of the table, the Chinese team included the Deputy Prime Minister and Chief Negotiator, Liu He; the chancellor Wang Yi and the president of the powerful central bank, Yi Gang.

(With information from AFP)